Category: Knowledge Management
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Boomers Bought Up the Big Homes. Now They’re Not Budging.
Many empty-nesters are staying put rather than downsizing, keeping housing inventory tight in a market where higher interest rates and steep prices are making homeownership less affordable for the average family. Source: Boomers Bought Up the Big Homes. Now They’re Not Budging. – WSJ
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Cognitive Scientist Pinker on “What’s wrong with our universities”
Here’s a new one-hour interview of Steve Pinker by John Tomasi, inaugural president of the Heterodox Academy. Here are the YouTube notes: Are our higher education institutions still nurturing… Source: Pinker on “What’s wrong with our universities” – Why Evolution Is True
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Maine Is a Warning for America’s PFAS Future
New federal rules require public systems to measure and mitigate certain harmful man-made chemicals. Maine is already learning how hard that can be. Source: Maine Is a Warning for America’s PFAS Future
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Perkins School for the Blind and visualization scientists help visually impaired people listen to eclipse.
https://www.perkins.org/resource/watching-solar-eclipse-low-vision/ https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/04/01/blind-visually-impaired-solar-eclipse-technology Astronomers have created a smartphone-sized device that gives visually impaired people a way to experience the celestial event. Source: Visually impaired people can now listen to an eclipse. Here’s how.
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I Love My Child—I Hate His Autism
We are supposed to be grateful for what we have, for “it can always be worse.” Source: I Love My Child—I Hate His Autism
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How abandoned strip malls could help solve the housing crisis
Converting malls could create hundreds of thousands of badly needed homes. Source: How abandoned strip malls could help solve the housing crisis – Vox
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The 2025 Toyota 4Runner Has Tons of Buttons Inside. That’s on Purpose.
Rather than slapping an iPad on the dash and calling it a day, the 4Runner’s interior designers considered how to make its interface useful and practical. Source: The 2025 Toyota 4Runner Has Tons of Buttons Inside. That’s on Purpose
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Google AI could soon use a person’s cough to diagnose disease
Nature – Machine-learning system trained on millions of human audio clips shows promise for detecting COVID-19 and tuberculosis. Source: Google AI could soon use a person’s cough to diagnose disease
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The Amazing Ways IKEA Is Using Generative AI
IKEA integrates generative AI for enhanced customer service and operational efficiency. Innovations include a design-assisting chatbot, generative ad campaigns and more. Source: The Amazing Ways IKEA Is Using Generative AI
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Forget GarageBand — new Google AI tool lets you make music with any instrument you describe
Making music one instrument at a time Source: Forget GarageBand — new Google AI tool lets you make music with any instrument you describe and I tried it | Tom’s Guide
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