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Power Soak is out today. It tells the true story of Tom Scholz, the MIT-trained engineer who built Boston's sound in his basement and then spent seven years locked in a fight to control it.
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Brendan Borrell
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Brendan Borrell
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Journalist and author @nytimes @natgeo @outsidemagazine POWER SOAK https://t.co/M1BI5uZdC9
Los Angeles, CA Se unió Aralık 2008
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RT 1/3 #RaisedOnRadio is: 'an entertaining and edifying depiction of the inner workings of the music business, with a keen appreciation for the craftsmanship, artistry and serendipity necessary to create a hit record.' - Wall Street Journal
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Raised on Radio: Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola - the AOR Glory Years 1976-1986 from @paulreesQ is a long overdue corrective to all those old saws about “corporate rock” sucking:
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@bcamcrane @Substack Great selections, Brent. I read Zweig’s Beware of Pity last year, which evidently inspired the Grand Budapest Hotel.
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Brendan Borrell retuiteado
Hey everyone! I'm starting a monthly newsletter on @Substack of curated longform journalism recommendations. I'll be highlighting the stories that've stuck with me the most each month + two books & a podcast. 1st post here. Please subscribe and share! open.substack.com/pub/thelongfor…
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This startup wants women to have more babies @eryney_ok on @OvelleBio corememory.com/p/this-startup…
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New babies are impossibly tiny and only this tiny (hand for scale) for a few weeks. Then they get big and start having opinions.
This is number four, very fresh and highly perfect.
All credit due of course to my brilliant and beautiful wife.
Babies get much easier with practice. It's a shame we don't get to do fish-levels reps.
I haven't yet seen an LLM do this.
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@DBWillia I'm sure you already know about it, but rockman.fr is a great resource!
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@bborrell Just read your book & it was fantastic. There is little out there on Scholz & the detail here was a real eye opener. What I would love as a Rockman enthusiast is a book on that company! I have had zero success in finding info or even former associates to fill in the blanks. Thx!
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Power Soak is out today. It tells the true story of Tom Scholz, the MIT-trained engineer who built Boston's sound in his basement and then spent seven years locked in a fight to control it.
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Meet the man who spent a year as Boston's secret singer: ultimateclassicrock.com/boston-band-se…
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This started as a footnote in some court transcripts I was digging through and ended with a 15-minute film I just released. @ClassicRockMag has the story.
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@bcamcrane Solid year, Brent! Anything else of note happen in 2025? 😅
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Here is a selection of my favorite 2025 stories of mine!
Starting off, for @BW, I investigated the spectacular rise and fall of an early internet mogul turned UFO conman: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Zillow, a $16 billion housing behemoth currently being sued by multiple US states and competitors, is the Uber of real estate, a tech disrupter that has come, for better or worse, to define the industry. Read my profile of its CEO for @BW here: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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He now signs his name: “Dr Ankur Khajuria, BSc (Hons) MBBS (Dist.) AICSM FHEA FRSPH MRCS (Eng) MAcadMEd. MFSTEd. MSc (Oxon) PhD.” retractionwatch.com/2026/01/07/uk-…
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So, I got truck cucked.
I legit cannot figure out why Slate would not let me drive their truck. Do people in auto land know why?
Have you ever seen a sadder TV host?
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What's your all-time favourite song by Boston???
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I am deeply excited to share that I will be joining @AsteraInstitute to start a new effort to understand how the brain generates consciousness and intelligence.
Astera Institute@AsteraInstitute
We’re launching Astera Neuro, a new neuroscience research effort led by @doristsao as Chief Scientist. Our aim is to unravel a profound scientific mystery: how the brain transforms sensory inputs into conscious experience. Advancing this work could illuminate the computational principles that drive perception and cognition and inspire approaches for neuroscience-informed AI research, potentially generating new pathways to AGI. Astera will support this work with $600M+ over the next decade. Read more: astera.org/neuroscientist…
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