On Goethe's birthday, rare illustrations of 'Faust' by the great 19th-century artist Eugène Delacroix themarginalian.org/2015/04/28/del…

Diving further into Jason's videos, I found more learnings: while blowing his own mind, Jason exudes charisma.

I noticed charisma is the state of projecting three qualities at once: confidence + joy + love for the audience. When you embody all three, you put listeners at ease.

For you to drop your self-consciousness so that a crowd drops theirs, you have to embrace what theater coach Konstantin Stanislavski calls 'public solitude,' which is the ability to behave like you're alone when you're in front of a room full of people staring at you.

There are orgies, decapitations, a somewhat rudimentary caesarean section and, most upsetting of all, extreme modelling. But is it any good?

Rachel Cooke reviews House of the Dragon. newstatesman.com/culture/tv/202…

Love the beach but want more?

At these #CostaRica n beach towns you'll also find ziplining, wilflife encounters, waterfall hikes, chocolate tours & more.

The best #Beach towns in #CostaRica : bit.ly/3QaPunl

#CostaRica #PuraVida

🧠Build-up of glutamate in the brain caused by intense thinking explains mental fatigue, suggest Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière - AP-HP researchers >>> bit.ly/3T0rwwW

A cellular engineering breakthrough: High-yield CRISPR without viral vectors

'This technology has the potential to make new cell and gene therapies faster, better, and less expensive.'

eurekalert.org/news-releases/… #CRISPR #genetherapy #biotech via EurekAlert! Gladstone Institutes

Spain passed a new law classifying sex without clear consent as rape. It comes six years after a gang rape of a woman stirred mass protests. nyti.ms/3KmE2D3

5 days left until Escape Into Meaning! Here's another excerpt, this time from the title essay about The Lord Of The Rings: youtu.be/PoV9JyiUcTs

There’s no hiding from this #AI model… it can identify leafy spurge from satellite images and track its spread over time Moeller Lab, Dr. Ryan B Runquist and University of Minnesota >>> bit.ly/3K4FObR

If a catastrophe killed off all Homo sapiens, would some other species evolve and build a technologically-advanced civilisation in our place?

I discuss in this excerpt for WIRED:

wired.com/story/longterm…

“A system trained on language alone will never approximate human intelligence, even if trained from now until the heat death of the universe.”

— Yann LeCun & Browning.jake00

noemamag.com/ai-and-the-lim…

This scene from Thirteen Lives was interesting and fun to relive and break down. youtu.be/EugF1ty6bNo via YouTube

As the medical benefits of psychedelics become more widely accepted, dozens of startups are seeking a piece of what could be the next big drug market trib.al/VMyLN83

A new study is paving the road to understanding why our hearts age. Researchers look deep into genetic code using single-cell sequencing to unravel these questions. singularityhub.com/2022/08/23/can…

A Google search update, rolling out this week, promises to prioritize “original, helpful content written by people, for people' rather than unsatisfying content’ aimed purely at ranking high on search buff.ly/3QIGWob

‘Never seen Jupiter like this’: James Webb telescope shows incredible view of planet theguardian.com/science/2022/a…