I spy another masterpiece in The Atlantic: Age of intellectual performance

“Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.” Cyril Connolly, “Told in Gath” ...read more

In The High Tatras n we have a saying ... There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.

The accountant who lost it all The Australian Financial Review‎  One of the first decisions the two made was to appoint Moltoni as their Australian tax adviser. Peter Moltoni ...

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Seals can copy human speech and sing Star Wars theme tune, new study says Sky News. n=3


Raymond Frank "Ray" Mathew (14 April 1929 – 27 May 2002) was an Australian author. Mathew wrote poetry, drama, radio plays and filmscripts, short stories, novels, arts and literature criticism, and other non-fiction. He left Australia in 1960 and never returned, dying in New York where he had lived from 1968

Planning to stay at peak intellectual performance into old age? Odds are you won’t. Indeed, decline may already have  set in 

"If what makes humans unique is the power of seeing what is not there, what makes them so destructive is that they believe what they have seen to be real 

Why truth doesn’t change people’s minds (and what does) Maarten van Doorn, via Medium Today, everyone can get more information than ever. Paradoxically, this has made the truth less — not more — accessible.

How to handle an irrational boss Amy Cooper Hakim, via LinkedIn Here are some easy tips to maintain your sanity and your job if you’re working for an illogical boss. I spy another masterpiece in The Atlantic   Deniss Metsavas, an Estonian military officer convicted of spying for the Russian military. (Photo courtesy of The Atlantic) Somebody is going to make a movie out of Michael Weiss’s latest in The Atlantic called “The Making of a Russian Spy.” It’s the story of Deniss Metsavas, an Estonian military officer who was recently convicted of spying for the GRU — the Russian military intelligence service that hacked Democratic National Committee emails before the 2016 presidential election. This was the first time someone in the Western media was able to interview a captured GRU operative. The piece also includes a 14-minute documentary with new interviews with Metsavas and Estonian intelligence officials.

Using CRISPR to resurrect the dead

CNET: “…As we stuff and mount the dead in museum hallways, scientists are working to stop the carnage. One of our most powerful tools to fight biological obliteration is CRISPR, a burgeoning gene-editing technology that acts like a molecular blade, slicing DNA apart and allowing us to add and subtract genes at will. It’s now being used to combat invasive species, destroy antibiotic-resistance bacteria and, controversially, edit the genes of human embryos. In fact, it’s so exceptional at editing DNA that “de-extinction,” the process of bringing extinct species back from the dead, is on the tabl

Science has already unraveled the DNA code of long-dead species such as the woolly mammoth, the passenger pigeon and Australia’s iconic Tasmanian tiger — and now, pioneering researchers are using CRISPR to remake modern-day descendants in the image of their ancient counterparts. Could we transform an Asian elephant into a woolly mammoth? We are marching toward that reality…”