One Bookstore, 3 Sisters and 100 Years

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Opinion | What Is Actually the Point of Treating the N.I.H. Like This? Efficiency is not being enhanced, nor is waste being eliminated at the N.I.H. Scientists are just left to wonder: Why?

"So when it’s all over, if the crown jewel of biomedical research — the enterprise that gave us the human genome sequence, Covid vaccines and treatments for cancer and H.I.V. and obesity — has been destroyed, what will have been the point?" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...

How I Didn’t Die: My Day at Bryan Johnson’s Immortality Summit It turns out that optimizing yourself like artificial intelligence not only won’t ensure that you live forever. It is also very expensive.

"This techno-solutionist approach to health and wellness epitomizes what Frankfurt School philosopher Max Horkheimer, writing in the 1940s, called “instrumental rationality,” a form of reason that never asks “why” but only “how.”"
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David Lynch Dead: ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’ Director Was 78 A visionary, his films included “Eraserhead,” “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive,” considered his masterwork. He brought his skewed view to the small screen with “Twin Peaks.”

"Mr. Lynch’s surrealism, however, was more intuitive than programmatic. If classic surrealists celebrated irrationality and sought to liberate the fantastic in the everyday, Mr. Lynch employed the ordinary as a shield to ward off the irrational." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/m...