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A llama stands near the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru. #NationalLlamaDay
ALT A llama, Lama glama, stands near the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru. (National Geographic Image Collection/Jonathan Irish)
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The adventure continues! 🐧🐧
This morning, Edward and Annie explored Shedd’s rotunda. They are a bonded pair of rockhopper penguins, which means they are together for nesting season. Springtime is nesting season for penguins at Shedd, and this year is no different! (1/3) 👇
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Every CFO who has ever insisted that a lot of business travel is frivolous is about to get the A/B test of their careers.
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More evidence about the fascinating connection between diet and cancer. It's not "starving" the cancer -- but rather finding precise vulnerabilities that makes metabolic therapies feasible biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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today I learned that elevators have phone numbers so that they can call out in case of emergencies. the elevator in my apartment building got a robocall and automatically answered it, so as I rode to my floor I listened to a robot try to convince an elevator to improve its seo.
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Alcohol reduces deep sleep by 20% equivalent to aging by 20 to 30 years
6 hours of sleep per night for 1 week changes your genes by 3%
Reduced sleep increasing insulin resistance and puts someone who is exercising consistently into pre diabetes bit.ly/2USx9D2
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important numbers:
- as least 75 different collectors (I can independently confirm, that’s correct)
- some track ~200,000,000 US-based phones
- some upload location 14,000+ times daily
- 1,000+ apps contain such code
I recommend reading in full. so wild.
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Your apps know where you were last night, and they're not keeping it secret. As smartphones have become ubiquitous and technology more accurate, an industry of snooping on people's daily habits has grown more intrusive. nyti.ms/2RInXeJ
Laughing a little at #PDXSnowpocalypse2019... Never seen so many people wound up about getting maybe 4 inches of snow... We will live 🙂
Basically everyone in #pdx right now:
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Looking back at old angel investment updates from portfolio companies this morning, and one powerful takeaway is that building great companies takes a long, long time -- even when internally it feels like you're moving at breakneck speed.
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10/ Nonconformist people tend to come from trauma, read the bios of Lincoln, Clinton, @elonmusk , steve jobs, and there are all hints of childhood trauma and conflict. Could optimizing for a happy childhood get you to the top 10%, but not all of the way there?
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I love that when Plato complains about the spread of the written word in 370 BC, he sounds like my granddad complaining about the internet.
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30 Years Ago Today: Sports Illustrated’s Walter Iooss takes his iconic photo of Michael Jordan, as he wins the 1988 Slam Dunk Contest in Chicago.
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Three types of smart people
Type C: Tell you what should do. Often are right.
Type B: Also generate ideas on how to do it
Type A: Also get it done
