Se pensate che i traumi infantili di noialtri anziani derivino da film come "Bambi" (ricordate la mamma "sparata" all'inizio?) o il "Re Leone" (la caduta di Mufasa durante il fuggi fuggi generale?), ecco, pensate meglio. C'è materia per avere traumi karmici, di quelli che te li ritrovi anche per le prossime due o tre reincarnazioni. Sto parlando di "La collina dei conigli" (in originale è "Watership Down"), il film del 1978 tratto da un romanzo di qualche anno prima. Una vera bomba.
Money quote: "What made the movie Watership Down infamous was not the deep themes of its source material, but the graphic imagery. This is no watered-down Disney flick! The savagery of nature is on full display, and this can be unsettling for viewers of all ages, more so since the victims are often cuddly animals some keep as pets. There are scenes with roadkill, and rabbits being plucked from the sky by hawks while others are throttled in a noose-like snare while coughing up blood, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg."
https://www.fatherly.com/entertainment/watership-down-retrospective-kids-and-family
Money quote: "What made the movie Watership Down infamous was not the deep themes of its source material, but the graphic imagery. This is no watered-down Disney flick! The savagery of nature is on full display, and this can be unsettling for viewers of all ages, more so since the victims are often cuddly animals some keep as pets. There are scenes with roadkill, and rabbits being plucked from the sky by hawks while others are throttled in a noose-like snare while coughing up blood, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg."
https://www.fatherly.com/entertainment/watership-down-retrospective-kids-and-family
Fatherly
45 Years Ago, One Deranged Animated Movie Traumatized A Generation
Watership Down was controversial when it first came out, but are audiences today ready for this mature kids' cartoon?
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La filosofia come disciplina e ambito del pensare è in una gran bella crisi. In buona parte per colpa sua, sia chiaro. Una delle ragioni però è la specializzazione richiesta dalle università, ma un'altra è il settarismo aumentato dal rivolgersi solo verso i propri pari. E comunque, basterebbe l'occuparsi di poche cose anziché del tutto, a cambiare il senso della ricerca. Tuttavia, c'è anche una grande inversione di cosa si studia, orientata sempre più verso la scienza e la tecnologia, a sua volta connessa al bisogno occupazionale della società industriale. Serve manodopera specializzata, insomma: ingegneri, chimici, fisici, programmatori. I filosofi al massimo servono per scrivere libri di auto-aiuto.
Money quote: "Today, one can clearly see the effects of specialisation. Considered little more than a frivolous pastime in the 21st century, at best an elective, philosophy is seen by many to be ill suited to the vocation-oriented education system that is prioritised today. Universities provide courses that make students ‘job-ready’, while digital literacy is marketed as the benchmark of intellect and success. The infrastructure of education is almost unanimously in favour of quantified learning and STEM courses. In 2022, for instance, the Australian Research Council released its results for approved projects for 2023. Out of the 478 projects that were approved for 2023, 131 were for engineering, information and computing sciences; 117 for biological sciences and biotechnology; 98 for mathematics, physics, chemistry and Earth sciences; 93 for social, behavioural and economic sciences; and 39 for humanities and creative arts."
https://aeon.co/essays/since-when-is-philosophy-a-branch-of-the-self-help-industry
Money quote: "Today, one can clearly see the effects of specialisation. Considered little more than a frivolous pastime in the 21st century, at best an elective, philosophy is seen by many to be ill suited to the vocation-oriented education system that is prioritised today. Universities provide courses that make students ‘job-ready’, while digital literacy is marketed as the benchmark of intellect and success. The infrastructure of education is almost unanimously in favour of quantified learning and STEM courses. In 2022, for instance, the Australian Research Council released its results for approved projects for 2023. Out of the 478 projects that were approved for 2023, 131 were for engineering, information and computing sciences; 117 for biological sciences and biotechnology; 98 for mathematics, physics, chemistry and Earth sciences; 93 for social, behavioural and economic sciences; and 39 for humanities and creative arts."
https://aeon.co/essays/since-when-is-philosophy-a-branch-of-the-self-help-industry
Aeon
Whither philosophy?
The discipline today finds itself precariously balanced between incomprehensible specialisation and cheap self-help
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Il giornalismo ha ancora una funzione fondamentale soprattutto adesso che è rimasta l'unica possibile via per garantire uno standard al flusso della comunicazione che ci avvolge tra social, podcast, tv, radio e tutto il resto. Quella funzione è di orientare in maniera appropriata, usando le parole giuste e non quelle approssimative che, come nel gioco del telefono senza fili, a ogni passaggio amplificano le distorsioni. Per questo avere uno standard è importante. E per questo il Guardian sta ciccando.
Money quote: "The Guardian Opinion headline, "Why are young people all growing mullets? I’ve been inspired by a much better hairstyle," joins a noxious trend of using a universal quantifier -- "all" or "every," for example -- to refer to a subset that is actually a minority.
It's sloppy and unprofessional. And it's a lie. The percentage of "young people" "growing mullets" is in fact a minority. The trend may or may not be growing. But even "most" is a lie. "All" is a ridiculous and obvious lie. Pointing this out pegs me as a stuffy scold. After all, the piece is frivolous, the topic irrelevant.
But I fear the motivation for such flabby language is that in today's media landscape, professional media competes with social media in the global contest for eyeballs."
https://elgan.com/the-guardian-joins-the-trend-of-using-universal-quantifiers-to-express-a-minority-wait-what
Money quote: "The Guardian Opinion headline, "Why are young people all growing mullets? I’ve been inspired by a much better hairstyle," joins a noxious trend of using a universal quantifier -- "all" or "every," for example -- to refer to a subset that is actually a minority.
It's sloppy and unprofessional. And it's a lie. The percentage of "young people" "growing mullets" is in fact a minority. The trend may or may not be growing. But even "most" is a lie. "All" is a ridiculous and obvious lie. Pointing this out pegs me as a stuffy scold. After all, the piece is frivolous, the topic irrelevant.
But I fear the motivation for such flabby language is that in today's media landscape, professional media competes with social media in the global contest for eyeballs."
https://elgan.com/the-guardian-joins-the-trend-of-using-universal-quantifiers-to-express-a-minority-wait-what
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Due app per cercare tra i canali dei vari servizi streaming. Ammesso che siate abbonati a un tot di servizi streaming e costantemente arrabbiati perché quel film che vorreste vedere non si trova da nessuna parte. (Secondo me vincerà chi andrà di archivio, non di novità)
Money quote: "Both JustWatch and Reelgood enable you to look for your shows over many, if not all, services. That includes more obscure streaming channels, including the best free streaming services such as Crackle, Pluto TV, and Tubi TV."
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/want-to-search-across-all-of-your-streaming-channels-these-two-apps-can-help/
Money quote: "Both JustWatch and Reelgood enable you to look for your shows over many, if not all, services. That includes more obscure streaming channels, including the best free streaming services such as Crackle, Pluto TV, and Tubi TV."
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/want-to-search-across-all-of-your-streaming-channels-these-two-apps-can-help/
ZDNET
Want to search across all of your streaming channels? These two apps can help
Now, more than ever, we have an abundance of great TV shows and movies only a click away. Here's how to track down the ones you want to watch.
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Il mito Maya di Quetzalcoatl nei fumetti: uno studio scientifico. In realtà utilissimo per la bibliografia di historietas da cercare e leggere.
Money quote: "Just as the American comic industry has contributed to the knowledge of European mythological pantheons such as the Norse or the Greek ones, this study analyzes the presence of the prehispanic pantheon in graphic narrative through the myth of Quetzalcoatl. After a review of multiple perspectives about its identity, and the definition of analysis and selection criteria, a revision of the presence of this deity in various comics is carried out. Our reading proposal is articulated to contribute to the knowledge of an essential mythological figure through comics as a teaching resource at different educational levels."
https://revistes.uab.cat/mitologias/mitologias/article/view/v21-ruiz-rovira-baile
Money quote: "Just as the American comic industry has contributed to the knowledge of European mythological pantheons such as the Norse or the Greek ones, this study analyzes the presence of the prehispanic pantheon in graphic narrative through the myth of Quetzalcoatl. After a review of multiple perspectives about its identity, and the definition of analysis and selection criteria, a revision of the presence of this deity in various comics is carried out. Our reading proposal is articulated to contribute to the knowledge of an essential mythological figure through comics as a teaching resource at different educational levels."
https://revistes.uab.cat/mitologias/mitologias/article/view/v21-ruiz-rovira-baile
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La storia di Messalina, raccontata in inglese, perché no?
Money quote: "Messalina was very beautiful and irresistible to most Roman men. In 38, she married Claudius (10 BC-54 AD), when she was eighteen and he was forty-eight. Romans didn’t bother with the fact they were first cousins, once removed. She gave birth to a daughter Claudia Octavia and to a son Britannicus."
https://medium.com/short-history/messalina-aa0bd471608a
https://archive.ph/UpSY8
Money quote: "Messalina was very beautiful and irresistible to most Roman men. In 38, she married Claudius (10 BC-54 AD), when she was eighteen and he was forty-eight. Romans didn’t bother with the fact they were first cousins, once removed. She gave birth to a daughter Claudia Octavia and to a son Britannicus."
https://medium.com/short-history/messalina-aa0bd471608a
https://archive.ph/UpSY8
Internet Artifacts è una piacevolissima serie di animazioni che incapsulano momenti della storia della rete, dalla sua infanzia con 111 nodi della rete nel 1977 sino alla presentazione dell'iPhone nel gennaio 2007.
Chi l'avrebbe mai detto che ce l'avrebbe fatta, internet?
https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/
Chi l'avrebbe mai detto che ce l'avrebbe fatta, internet?
https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/
neal.fun
Internet Artifacts
Browse through the old internet
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È passato un po' di tempo (qualche settimana) e il Manifesto di Marc Andreessen si è un po' perso. Questo articolo rispiega per bene cosa ha detto l'inventore di Netscape e attualmente super venture capitalist.
Money quote: "Andreessen rails against social responsibility, trust and safety measures, sustainability, and tech ethics—what the investor calls the enemies of techno-optimism. He scoffs at the idea that technology takes jobs, hurts the environment, or corrupts children in any way. The manifesto lists many enemies, ranging from victim mentalities to cartels to communists, with many more listed besides."
https://fortune.com/2023/10/16/marc-andreessen-techno-optimist-manifesto-ai-50-billion-people-billionaire-vc/
Money quote: "Andreessen rails against social responsibility, trust and safety measures, sustainability, and tech ethics—what the investor calls the enemies of techno-optimism. He scoffs at the idea that technology takes jobs, hurts the environment, or corrupts children in any way. The manifesto lists many enemies, ranging from victim mentalities to cartels to communists, with many more listed besides."
https://fortune.com/2023/10/16/marc-andreessen-techno-optimist-manifesto-ai-50-billion-people-billionaire-vc/
Fortune
Marc Andreessen just dropped a ‘Techno-Optimist Manifesto’ that sees a world of 50 billion people settling other planets
From the billionaire VC’s hot takes: Slowing AI innovation will kill people, and universal basic income will turn us into zoo animals.
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Apple fa bene con l'ambiente o no? Forse no, non abbastanza almeno. Però ci prova. Il punto della situazione.
Money quote: "“While Apple may be too quick to claim their products are ‘carbon neutral,’ they are the only ones who are both setting a strong example in how they are moving their own operations off of fossil fuels, and working aggressively to get their suppliers on a path to be 100% renewably powered by 2030,” Cook said."
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/16/23915763/apple-big-tech-climate-change-report
Money quote: "“While Apple may be too quick to claim their products are ‘carbon neutral,’ they are the only ones who are both setting a strong example in how they are moving their own operations off of fossil fuels, and working aggressively to get their suppliers on a path to be 100% renewably powered by 2030,” Cook said."
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/16/23915763/apple-big-tech-climate-change-report
The Verge
Apple has an edge over its competitors in the fight against climate change
It’s tougher on its suppliers than other big names in tech.
L'altra cosa: è domenica e come al solito (a quanto pare) è uscito il nuovo numero di Mostly Weekly, la mia newsletter eccetera eccetera. Sta qua:
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/246/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/246/
Mostly Here
~246
Astronavi in fiamme al largo dei bastioni di OpenAI e altre guerre
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Ah, quasi dimenticavo: questa settimana c'è anche Tilde 32, il podcast con me e Riccardo. Sulle varie piattaforme ma anche qui:
https://tilde.show/podcast-32/
(è stata una settimana lunga)
https://tilde.show/podcast-32/
(è stata una settimana lunga)
tilde ~ podcast
Episodio 32 ~ tilde podcast
Viaggio veloce attraverso modi differenti di pensare i libri, le app per la radio e le traduzioni dei libri.
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Il problema con la mano invisibile, è che deve coniugare il benessere pubblico con tante teste di pinolo. Prendete questo pinolo, in particolare: è anche simpatico, ma il suo dramma è un fallimento del mercato e la dimostrazione che la rete mette in cortocircuito anche Adam Smith.
Money quote: "A strategy consists of matching means to an end; if my end was rapid financial independence, my means were youth, pedigree, lack of student debt, a prodigious capacity for work, and a lack of a faculty for combinatorics, which rendered me unsuitable for quantitative finance. It helped that I genuinely liked technology, had devoured science fiction and messed around with computers since I was little. The smart move was probably working for one of the FAANGs, which grew so reliably that you could chill and make a few hundred thousand dollars a year. But I didn’t want to do that. This was the mid-2010s. Though peak mania had yet to arrive, venture capitalists were showering people the same age as me with capital. Someone in my graduating class had just flipped a two year old start-up for a life-changing sum.
After several false starts, I was introduced to my co-founder by a mutual friend."
https://archive.ph/Dwxhw
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/venture-capital-backed-startup-founder-confessions.html
Money quote: "A strategy consists of matching means to an end; if my end was rapid financial independence, my means were youth, pedigree, lack of student debt, a prodigious capacity for work, and a lack of a faculty for combinatorics, which rendered me unsuitable for quantitative finance. It helped that I genuinely liked technology, had devoured science fiction and messed around with computers since I was little. The smart move was probably working for one of the FAANGs, which grew so reliably that you could chill and make a few hundred thousand dollars a year. But I didn’t want to do that. This was the mid-2010s. Though peak mania had yet to arrive, venture capitalists were showering people the same age as me with capital. Someone in my graduating class had just flipped a two year old start-up for a life-changing sum.
After several false starts, I was introduced to my co-founder by a mutual friend."
https://archive.ph/Dwxhw
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/venture-capital-backed-startup-founder-confessions.html
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Quando ero piccolo un amico e collega dei miei genitori era Adolfo Natalini. Dico era perché purtroppo l'architetto Natalini è morto nel 2020. Tuttavia, siccome era davvero bravo (sotto metto anche la voce di Wikipedia, per darvi un'idea) oltre che meravigliosamente sopra le righe dal punto di vista di un bambino, ogni volta che per caso lo ritrovo citato in qualche articolo è una sorpresa piacevole ma anche un po' amara.
Comunque, ho scoperto che nel ha disegnato anche un orologio, che tra l'altro mi piace molto: il Laureato di Girard-Perregaux.
Money quote: "Il design del Laureato è un prodotto degli anni ’70, proprio come nel caso del Patek Philippe Nautilus e dell’Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. Il grande Gérald Genta è la mente dietro il design del Patek e dell’AP, mentre l’aspetto del Laureato è stato ideato dall’architetto italiano Adolfo Natalini. Il primo Laureato fu lanciato nel 1975, collocandosi tra l’anno di presentazion del Royal Oak (1972) e quello del Nautilus (1976). Le caratteristiche estetiche più evidenti di tutti e tre gli orologi sono i bracciali integrati in acciaio e le lunette ottagonali."
https://www.chrono24.it/magazine/girard-perregaux-laureato-lalternativa-perfetta-al-nautilus-e-al-royal-oak-p_95993/
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Natalini
Comunque, ho scoperto che nel ha disegnato anche un orologio, che tra l'altro mi piace molto: il Laureato di Girard-Perregaux.
Money quote: "Il design del Laureato è un prodotto degli anni ’70, proprio come nel caso del Patek Philippe Nautilus e dell’Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. Il grande Gérald Genta è la mente dietro il design del Patek e dell’AP, mentre l’aspetto del Laureato è stato ideato dall’architetto italiano Adolfo Natalini. Il primo Laureato fu lanciato nel 1975, collocandosi tra l’anno di presentazion del Royal Oak (1972) e quello del Nautilus (1976). Le caratteristiche estetiche più evidenti di tutti e tre gli orologi sono i bracciali integrati in acciaio e le lunette ottagonali."
https://www.chrono24.it/magazine/girard-perregaux-laureato-lalternativa-perfetta-al-nautilus-e-al-royal-oak-p_95993/
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Natalini
www.chrono24.it
È forse questa l'alternativa perfetta al Nautilus e al Royal Oak? | Il magazine di Chrono24
Molti appassionati di orologi affermano che non ci sia alternativa all'Audemars Piguet Royal Oak e al Patek Philippe Nautilus. Noi la pensiamo diversamente...
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Quali sono le otto regole per la scrittura di Kurt Vonnegut?
https://antoniodini.com/otto-regole-vonnegut/
https://antoniodini.com/otto-regole-vonnegut/
Mostly Here
Kurt Vonnegut
L'autore di Mattatoio N.5 ha creato la lista più semplice e diretta per raccontare delle storie, ma la più interessante è quella della sua vita
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Cosa è successo dentro OpenAI, quali sono stati i presupposti dell'accaduto e quali saranno le conseguenze, tutto spiegato bene da Ben Thompson.
Money quote: "I have, as you might expect, authored several versions of this Article, both in my head and on the page, as the most extraordinary weekend of my career has unfolded. To briefly summarize..."
https://stratechery.com/2023/openais-misalignment-and-microsofts-gain/
Money quote: "I have, as you might expect, authored several versions of this Article, both in my head and on the page, as the most extraordinary weekend of my career has unfolded. To briefly summarize..."
https://stratechery.com/2023/openais-misalignment-and-microsofts-gain/
Stratechery
OpenAI’s Misalignment and Microsoft’s Gain
The end of a dramatic weekend in tech is that OpenAI has split and Microsoft is partnered with one and has hired the other; this is the ultimate failure case of what should have been a for-profit c…
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Forwarded from EL MUNDO
¡Ojo con las mentiras que rodean al Black Friday! La propia OCU advierte de que los precios online no sólo no bajan sino que suben de media un 3% https://tinyurl.com/3rxrybhr
ELMUNDO
La OCU advierte de que los precios 'online' rebajados en el Black Friday esconden una subida media del 3%
La Organización de Consumidores y Usuarios (OCU) ha denunciado que los precios 'online' rebajados durante el 'Black Friday' esconden una subida media del 3%,...
Il problema delle fotografie nella serie tv "Bodies" di Netflix - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2023/11/bodies-netflix-serie-tv-fotografie/
https://fumettologica.it/2023/11/bodies-netflix-serie-tv-fotografie/
Fumettologica
Il problema delle fotografie nella serie tv "Bodies" di Netflix
Le fotografie mostrate nella serie tv Bodies di Netflix ambientata nel 1890 hanno un grosso problema: in quegli anni non si facevano.
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Adam Engst, il fenomeno dietro la più longeva newsletter della storia ancora in funzione (o la seconda più vecchia, comunque tanta roba) ha scritto questa fenomenale guida alle funzioni nascoste del tasto Fn. Se usate il Mac è veramente tanta tanta roba. Tipo una quarantina di shortcuts.
Money quote: "Along with the options exposed in System Settings, Apple's engineers have slipped in a bunch of additional hard-coded shortcuts. Here are all of those I've found, many of which aren't documented in Apple's list of keyboard shortcuts."
https://tidbits.com/2023/11/16/the-hidden-secrets-of-the-fn-key/
Money quote: "Along with the options exposed in System Settings, Apple's engineers have slipped in a bunch of additional hard-coded shortcuts. Here are all of those I've found, many of which aren't documented in Apple's list of keyboard shortcuts."
https://tidbits.com/2023/11/16/the-hidden-secrets-of-the-fn-key/
TidBITS
The Hidden Secrets of the Fn Key
The Fn key has been a fixture on Apple keyboards for decades, but many Mac users lack a sense of its purpose. Adam Engst thought he was going to write a quick article listing hidden keyboard shortcuts that tap the Fn key but got dragged into documenting the…
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In realtà la novità più interessante uscita fuori con ChatGPT non è il caos scaturito dallo scontro tra il CdA di OpenAI e il ceo Sam Altman, a il prodotto che è stato reso disponibile per tutti, anche per chi usa ChatGPT in forma gratuita. La possibilità di chiedere a voce e sentire le risposte lette da ChatGPT.
Money quote: "ChatGPT’s voice feature is now available to all users for free. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI announced users can now tap the headphones icon to use their voice to talk with ChatGPT in the mobile app, as well as get an audible response."
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/21/23971489/openai-chatgpt-voice-feature-ceo-drama
Money quote: "ChatGPT’s voice feature is now available to all users for free. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI announced users can now tap the headphones icon to use their voice to talk with ChatGPT in the mobile app, as well as get an audible response."
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/21/23971489/openai-chatgpt-voice-feature-ceo-drama
The Verge
OpenAI drops a big new ChatGPT feature with a joke about its CEO drama
The demo alludes to what’s going on inside OpenAI.
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Viviamo nell'epoca in cui accettiamo tutto tranne che una cosa: la morte. Al punto da pensarla come un'altra cosa. In questo caso è piuttosto lampante.
Money quote: "Just as birth certificates note the time we enter the world, death certificates mark the moment we exit it. This practice reflects traditional notions about life and death as binaries. We are here until, suddenly, like a light switched off, we are gone.
But while this idea of death is pervasive, evidence is building that it is an outdated social construct, not really grounded in biology. Dying is in fact a process—one with no clear point demarcating the threshold across which someone cannot come back.
Scientists and many doctors have already embraced this more nuanced understanding of death. As society catches up, the implications for the living could be profound. “There is potential for many people to be revived again,” says Sam Parnia, director of critical care and resuscitation research at NYU Langone Health."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/17/1082937/what-is-death/
Money quote: "Just as birth certificates note the time we enter the world, death certificates mark the moment we exit it. This practice reflects traditional notions about life and death as binaries. We are here until, suddenly, like a light switched off, we are gone.
But while this idea of death is pervasive, evidence is building that it is an outdated social construct, not really grounded in biology. Dying is in fact a process—one with no clear point demarcating the threshold across which someone cannot come back.
Scientists and many doctors have already embraced this more nuanced understanding of death. As society catches up, the implications for the living could be profound. “There is potential for many people to be revived again,” says Sam Parnia, director of critical care and resuscitation research at NYU Langone Health."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/17/1082937/what-is-death/
MIT Technology Review
The Biggest Questions: What is death?
New neuroscience is challenging our understanding of the dying process—bringing opportunities for the living.
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