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Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy's parting prescription for America. Very inspirational person with good, thoughtful advice.
Full text at www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
January 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I Did Think, Let’s Go About This Slowly
by Mary Oliver

I did think, let’s go about this slowly.
This is important. This should take
some real deep thought. We should take
small thoughtful steps.

But, bless us, we didn’t.
December 27, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Being a geologist seems to come with a Cassandra Complex (named for a Greek woman who could foretell the future, but was cursed so that no one would believe her warnings [very unfair to her!]).
As Ben Franklin said, “When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/b...
China’s Critical Minerals Embargo Is Even Tougher Than Expected
Beijing ordered companies around the world not to allow critical minerals mined in China to reach the U.S., while deepening its efforts to replace imports with domestic products.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Will AI – a large language model – *change* language in response to how we use it. People use AI to create text with simplified prompts AND condense long text into simplified summaries to read. Will our writing style eventually shortcut intermediary AI verbosity to a hyper-concise abstracted format?
November 30, 2024 at 11:18 AM