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Sunday, March 02, 2025

Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life - What is the meaning of life?

 Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom


waiter: would you like water? me: yes please waiter: still? me: I literally just said yes


Today's NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Sunday, March 2, 2025


How a son spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories NPR


Oak trees are some of the most important trees in the world. Watch as Dr. Andrew Hippdiscusses his Oak research. Besides being the backbone of many of our forests, they also support as stunning array of insect life, animal and fungal life, and have also been key to humans since time began

There are a lot of oak species in North America. Some of them are among the oldest living things on the planet.


David Perell + Dana Gioia, three hour conversation on writing.


What is the meaning of life?




How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic


Selling the Collective: On Kevin Killian’s “Selected Amazon Reviews” Cleveland Review of Books. “The 697-page collection rescues from obscurity some of the over two thousand reviews the poet, playwright, novelist, biographer, editor, critic, and artist posted to the platform from 2003 until his death in 2019.”


This Robot Dog Is Making Its Off-Broadway Theater Debut CNET


Don’t Panic, But the Chances Of That Asteroid Hitting Earth In 2032 Just Almost Doubled 2 Oceans Vibe


Physicists uncover evidence of two arrows of time emerging from the quantum realm University of SurreY


NY Times Op-Ed: My Favorite Argument For The Existence Of God