John

YouTube video by Red Bull World's Fastest Camera Drone Vs F1 Car (ft. Max Verstappen)

AI is advancing at an astonishing pace. Another area of rapidly developing technology is drones. Here’s a great, short piece from the Red Bull team, showing their development of the fastest camera drone and use it to videotape an F1 car on a lap around Silverstone.
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A Radical Experiment in Mental Health Care, Tested Over Centuries (Gift Article) In the Belgian town of Geel, families have long taken in people with psychiatric conditions. Could this approach work elsewhere?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/w...

Therefore, in 2025, I wish for you, yours, and myself the moral courage to engage meaningfully and humanely with one another, learning from and accepting our differences and fostering a deeper understanding of our innate diversity.

How can I do this in a meaningful and educational way, while also humanizing them and ensuring I also grow my myself?

“the banality of evil is that all of us have a bit of Eichmann in ourselves…”

Therefore, the real question I ought to pose to myself is: What am I willing to do to engage others’ ignorance and challenge their biases?

I penned this almost a decade ago, and reviewed/updated it as it still resonates with me and in someways more than ever.

As I reflect on the year and manifold events that have unfolded, I am reminded of something I read in Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem,

Opinion | No, You Don’t Get an A for Effort High marks reward excellence, not grit.

No, You Don’t Get an A for Effort www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...

Opinion | Insurance is what makes U.S. health-care prices so high America needs a working marketplace where patients are the primary customers.

In more serious matters... A good read.

Insurance is what makes U.S. health-care prices so high

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Have an awesome Boxing Day!

This company rates news sites’ credibility. The right wants it stopped. NewsGuard, which prizes its nonpartisan criteria, has become a prime target of the GOP’s battle against disinformation watchdogs.

Disinformation and tearing down societal guardrails is bad whomever does it... outright Orwellian.

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