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The disconnect between effort and value

They’re often out of whack. A Hard Day’s Night took less than 15 hours from idea to finished record. More Than a Feeling, from Tom Scholz and Boston, took five years. Each pleased their audiences. One is not 1,500 times more valuable than the other. Sometimes, work that

A Fatal Reaction

"A cutting-edge gene-editing trial in China went disastrously wrong. A family wants accountability."

Are You Good at Mowing Lawns?

I don’t know what sort of neurodiverse bucket this puts me in, but I think a lot about mowing the lawn 1 relative to how much time I actually spend mowing lawns (~6-7 hours per year). And so I was completely fascinated by The Pudding’s latest post on optimal lawn mowing paths

Kimsooja Comes Full Circle

Her first exhibition in Toronto for 30 years captures her single-minded focus on the needle as a metaphor for folding and unfolding, memory and displacement.

An 8K Cinematic Tribute to the Artemis II Mission

Using high-definition open source videos and photos from NASA and his own music, John Boswell (aka Melodysheep ) created this mesmerizing eight-minute video recap of the Artemis II mission that enchanted us all back in the spring. Like all of his videos I’ve featured on KDO ,

Work vs gym: a simple way to decide whether to use AI...

Work vs gym: a simple way to decide whether to use AI for a task . “At the gym, it makes no sense for that robot to lift weights for you. The point of weightlifting isn’t to move heavy things across the room; it’s to actually lift those heavy things.”