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"Finite – to fail, but infinite to venture." - Emily Dickinson #explore #birthdays #BornOnThisDay #OTD

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Even car companies know the inefficiencies of cars in cities jalopnik.com/the-saturn-com…

Exciting news for technology enthusiasts! Sequoia just released their AI 50 list of promising AI startups to watch in 2023. Check out their predictions and take note of these companies making an impact in the industry. sequoiacap.com/article/ai-50-… #AI #startups #future #innovation

All eyes on lo, the most volcanic place in the solar system! NASA’s Juno mission will get images of the Jovian moon Io this week as it explores Jupiter’s inner moons. Juno is performing double duty observing Jupiter's moons with even more flybys to come! go.nasa.gov/3WezzXU

Shine bright like NGC 2031 💎 Hubble's next #StarrySights image shows a cluster that resides about 150,000 light-years from Earth in an extremely dense region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. For more: go.nasa.gov/3Hgfc8z

#ICYMI: @NASA_Astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio installed a new roll-out solar array on the station and watched as it unfurled (seen here in time-lapse) during a spacewalk on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. More... go.nasa.gov/3VvYuGm

Know any high school students curious about bioengineering? We will offer @Stanford's Intro. to Bioengineering for credit at no cost to students in Title 1-eligible schools. Info. session THIS Thursday: publicate.it/p/i23zEQAyQcXW… Grateful for retweets. @EdEquityLab @jennbrophy7

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“There’s this enormous potential future ahead of us, and we can do an enormous amount of good to make it better,” says William MacAskill in “How Much Does the Future Matter?,” a new session in the “Doing Good” series on Waking Up. bit.ly/3zZlsvZ

Why large AI language models don't lead to human-like AI buff.ly/3AOrd01

“We’re still in the Wright brothers’ days of flight when it comes to longevity. We still have a 747 and a Concorde to come, I hope, within our lifetimes” ⁦— ⁦@davidasinclair⁩ via ⁦@FuchsWriter⁩ 🕶 fyi ⁦@wardlawm3⁩ Enjoy 🎁 link wapo.st/3cGxMdf

Gift link via @NYTimes #EV #battery nytimes.com/2022/08/29/bus…

We need to think of each other as true sisters and brothers, and to be concerned with each other’s welfare. Rather than working solely to acquire wealth, we need to do something meaningful, something seriously directed toward the welfare of humanity as a whole.

BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.

1. Make way for the king of the solar system! 👑 New Webb images of Jupiter highlight the planet's features, including its turbulent Great Red Spot (shown in white here), in amazing detail. These images were processed by citizen scientist Judy Schmidt: go.nasa.gov/3K9zMqC

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught. 🧠

When we’re all overwhelmed by awful headlines, does #Twitter, started in 2006, still matter? Can #socialmedia be used for good? Maybe it can.hubs.la/Q01jDjkY0

“People often ask me if I’m working on a book. That’s not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It’s like putting myself under a spell...so real to me that if I have to leave my work for a few days, I have to work myself back into the spell.” Gift link wapo.st/3p3mP7Z

In Germany, a whopping 13% of households own an ebike (an increase from 3% in 2014). H/t @MicromobilityCo

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