Ravens planned to take Shedeur Sanders in draft, sources say - ESPN — If this is true, Shedeur made a big mistake. Can you imagine the great training you could have by being the backup to the NFL’s best QB for one or two years! You take that training and move to another team and you’d be an instant starter. Now, Shedeur will be a lifetime backup.
Global Trade War Comes to New Jersey’s ‘Little India’ - WSJ
“The economy here is plateauing or even going down,” says Mahesh Shah, vice chairman of the local Indian Business Association, which hosted the annual parade. “Smaller businesses may not survive.”
“Take the phone and turn it upside down so the lens is on the bottom half. Do 2x zoom, step back, and it will make everything seem far more in actual human proportion. This is why people are getting crazy nose jobs and lip jobs, because they’re looking at themselves with a phone camera too much and thinking that’s the reality of their faces! And it’s just a lens, and we’re getting weird distortion. Two times zoom, flip the camera over, move in and out from there, is what I would say. And get low.”
Learn from experts in Apple Music Classical - Apple Support
Listening guides for selected recordings, available in English, include detailed information about a recording as it’s playing and are available on iPhone, iPad, and Android.
This is great!
sleepbaseball.com - Love these fake baseball game broadcasts to put me to sleep.
Here is a New Yorker article about it: The Rapture of Listening to a Fake Baseball Game | The New Yorker
12th Grade Reading Skills Hit a New Low - The New York Times
The reading skills of American high school seniors are the worst they have been in three decades, according to new federal testing data, a worrying sign for teenagers as they face an uncertain job market and information landscape challenged by A.I.
In math, 12th graders had the lowest performance since 2005.
On the Reverse Flynn Effect - Cal Newport
But as he gathered data to build an up-to-date chart, he was “very surprised” by what he discovered: “IQ has actually started to fall.”
Revenge of the Tipping Point a book by Malcolm Gladwell - Bookshop.org US — A truly excellent book. The best way to “read” it is through the audiobook, narrated by Malcolm Gladwell himself.
Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date - The New York Times — Oh no they didn’t!
Healthcare’s Steady Job Growth Is Keeping a Weakening Labor Market Afloat—but for How Long? - WSJ
All told, there are now 23.5 million health-services jobs in the U.S., or about one in six private-sector jobs. That compares with 12.7 million manufacturing jobs, and 15.6 million jobs at retailers. Only the professional and business-services sector, a catchall category that includes everything from lawyers to security guards to telemarketers, comes close, with 22.5 million employees.
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