“Quickly is an important adverb in any context.”
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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Daily Archives: September 12, 2023
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University of California – Los Angeles
LIVE at 10 a.m. PDT: @UCLAChancellor Gene Block joins @mayorofla, @ADonovanLISC and more for a conversation on the future of cities.
Tune in here → https://t.co/aaKjgQSenm @MilkenInstitute #MIGlobal pic.twitter.com/ICUxVbuCzZ
— UCLA (@UCLA) October 18, 2021
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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London School of Economics
In a first for UK higher education, we've been independently verified as carbon neutral for the academic year 2020/21, for all our measured emissions! ✅ #SustainableLSE
ℹ️: https://t.co/PI2tGqx3t7 pic.twitter.com/kdZYZlptTN
— LSE (@LSEnews) November 4, 2021
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University of Rochester
All episodes of @LeagueOnPrime are streaming—and if you watch closely you might catch Rochester alum Beth Greenwood ’22 who made several trips to Pittsburgh last fall to film scenes for the show #GoJackets ⚾️https://t.co/bzXKacwbmL@URbaseball @UofRathletics @rochesteralumni pic.twitter.com/pX7RdR6rQd
— University of Rochester (@UofR) August 16, 2022
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Marxism performs the function of a religion, and its efficacy is of a religious character. But it is a caricature and a bogus form of religion, since it presents its temporal eschatology as a scientific system, which religious mythologies do not purport to be.
~ Leszek Kołakowski
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone’s life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Queensland University of Technology
Sugar. Why is it addictive, what it is doing to your brain? #QUT neuroscientist Prof Selena Bartlett on sugar, stress, addiction, denial & brain elasticity: https://t.co/GTPHb8IyVY (1:00:53) @DrSelenab #SilentKiller #SugarAddiction pic.twitter.com/D7DoQEFxqx
— QUT (@QUT) April 5, 2022
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Apple Lightning connector
turns 11 today
The Apple Lightning connector was released today – September 12 – in 2012.
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John Ziegler, who is a talk-radio host of unflagging industry, broad general knowledge, mordant wit, and extreme conviction, makes a particular specialty of media criticism.
~ David Foster Wallace
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