On impossible topics, on impossible forums, @kristatippett 's words do ring wise. youtube.com/watch?v=WI7HM9EY…
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Conversations about building a brighter future are essential to driving progress. And when the topic is clean energy, I'm always excited to listen.
“If you are to have any optimism in the climate space, I think you'd need to root it in the idea that ambition begets more ambition.” - Saul Griffith
I’m struck by how @GriffithSaul's vision for a better climate future was both ambitious and attainable.
link.chtbl.com/Ue1jsTs-
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It was six years ago, and my mate, Pink, had just been told he was going to die. He accepted the news with a grace I can only marvel at, but he said he’d a list of things he’d still like to do.
We sat in a pub one night and read it over. Eight things? Four months? Ok. Deal.
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These photos are stunning - remastered from Apollo 17, driving on the Moon 50 years ago this week.
bit.ly/3UO7llN @nasa @AndySaunders_1
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Addiction is a progressive narrowing
of the things that bring you pleasure.
Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively.
The latter takes work.
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This is a little bit of comfort for those who need it.
Over the Rainbow #songsofcomfort
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ASML is the most important company you've never heard of.
The $220B Dutch firm makes the machines that make semiconductors. Each one costs $150m and access to them are a huge geopolitical flashpoint.
Here's a breakdown 🧵
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Excited to share some new research that our team at Everyday Robots collaborated with Google Research on! PaLM-SayCan takes us one step closer to robots that can understand us: everydayrobots.com/thinking/…
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Exciting new research from @GoogleAI and Everyday Robots! 🧠🤖
Better language models do make for smarter robots: sites.research.google/palm-s…
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Remembering Cleveland Chenier, born on this day in 1921 in Opelousas, Louisiana. Here he is playing the frottoir (rub-board) to accompany his musical partner Lightnin' Hopkins at a party in Houston, Texas in 1968.
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Hoy que es el dia internacional de las mujeres y niñas en la ciencia quiero aplaudir a estas dos científicas que admiro @nelsyninor y @JuliSotobosque a las que acompañamos en uno de sus trabajos de campo en el Caquetá junto a @jennieerinsmith para @nytimes #MujeresEnCiencia
