{"id":41991,"date":"2024-04-07T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=41991"},"modified":"2024-04-01T10:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T17:02:48","slug":"the-infatuation-the-curricula-cold-war-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/the-infatuation-the-curricula-cold-war-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infatuation\/The Curricula\/Cold War lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sign up here<\/em><\/a>\u00a0to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Better restaurant guide<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After too many disappointing dining experiences, I’ve given up on using Yelp as a reliable restaurant guide. My new favorite resource is The Infatuation<\/a>, which has curated bar and restaurant lists for many major cities. Lists for Los Angeles (where I live) include \u201cThe Best Coffee Shops In LA For Getting Work Done<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cThe Best Armenian Restaurants In Los Angeles<\/a>.\u201d \u2014 MF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create a learning guide for any subject\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Curricula<\/a> is a website to help you learn \u201canything\u201d by generating a guide and resources. I\u2019ve been curious about the Alexander Technique<\/a>, a method of improving the mind-body connection, and what I was given was a summarized learning path and links to books, articles, and videos for each of the core concepts. All the content is generated by AI, so it is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate, but it did a decent job of providing a starting point for my research, and I appreciate the creator\u2019s intent. \u2014 CD <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cold War lessons<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Large political currents are moving China and the US towards a new cold war. I found the best remedy to temper this emerging hysteria is a new Netflix documentary series on the first Cold War. In 9 parts, each episode of Turning Point<\/a> goes into great detail about the origins of the mutual fears, the mad way demagogues fanned them and played them out, and the huge repercussions the conflict had on the entire world and everyday lives. In this story the nukes were the \u201cturning point.\u201d Along they way the series hints at the nature of a China vs US cold war, where AI is the turning point, and the lessons we might take from this recent history. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Self-contained worlds<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

An ecosphere is a self-contained world that contains plants and animals inside a completely sealed container. They can live for decades, without ever opening it up to feed or clean. The algae make food for the tiny brine shrimp, and the shrimp make carbon dioxide for the plants. Together they make a circle of life. I\u2019ve had ecospheres on my desk for 30 years. Until I inadvertently killed it, one of mine lasted 25 years. I\u2019ve bought small ecospheres and \u201crepotted\u201d them in larger vessels, but even small ones can last many years. A good deal for a small ecosphere is Shrimp Bubble<\/a>, which comes with an internal magnet to clean the inside glass without opening it. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Universe Size Comparison<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s a soothing 3-minute visualization<\/a> that zooms in and out across the known scales of the Universe \u2014 from the tiniest particle to the vast cosmic web. This higher perspective makes me feel both small and a miracle. \u2014 CD <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swiss army knife for PDF tasks<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If you need to merge, split, compress, or convert PDFs, try ILovePDF<\/a>. This free site transforms PDFs into various file formats (and vice versa). You can also use it to edit, sign, unlock, encrypt, and repair PDFs. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recomendo – issue #404<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2323],"tags":[2324],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41992,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41991\/revisions\/41992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}