Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway posted net income of $35.9 billion for the second quarter
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NASA Restores Voyager 2 Contact With a Last-Ditch ‘Shout’ Into Space - The New York Times
But it worked: On Friday at 12:29 a.m. Eastern time, Voyager 2 began transmitting science data once again. Scientists also confirmed that the probe remained on its original path.
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Telehealth service Amazon Clinic is now available in all 50 states
On average, Amazon Clinic messaging-based consultations cost $35, and video visits cost $75.
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‘Be Mine’ Shows the Trump Era Through Frank Bascombe’s Eyes - The Atlantic
Who do you like Frank or Harry?
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Inside Baseball’s Desperate Effort to Save Itself From Irrelevance - The Atlantic
When Manfred took over as commissioner, he made it clear that speeding up the game was a priority. He instituted a set of relatively minor adjustments that nibbled a few minutes and seconds away here and there—limitations on warm-up throws, in-game conferences, and pitching changes; eliminating the need to throw four outside pitches to complete an intentional walk. But this did not address the biggest drag on time: pitchers and batters futzing around between deliveries.
So starting this season, excessive delay would be punishable by balls and strikes, a direct performance cost that could influence the outcome of the game and the players’ statistics. After two unsuccessful pickoff throws by a pitcher, an unsuccessful third one will advance the runner a base. “One thing you learn about discipline in baseball is, uh, that money is a very weak deterrent,” Manfred told me with a resigned laugh. “The things that work affect what players really care about: Do you win or lose? Does it affect how well you do your job?”
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There’s a New Drug for Eczema—Actually, a Ton of New Drugs - The Atlantic
Doctors who treat severe eczema now speak of pre- and post-Dupixent eras: “It changed the landscape of having eczema forever,” says Brett King, a dermatologist at Yale. Today, a half dozen novel treatments are available for the skin condition, all of which work by quieting the same biological pathway in eczema; dozens more are in clinical trials. Unlike older drugs, these new ones are precisely targeted and in many cases startlingly effective.
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Accuracy of a Generative Artificial Intelligence Model in a Complex Diagnostic Challenge - PubMed
The future is coming for medicine.
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Currently reading: Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard 📚
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Calculating the Shadow of a Beach Umbrella - WSJ
Projective geometry has its roots in the study of perspective drawing. Artists developed some understanding of perspective intuitively, but a formal treatment was introduced by the Renaissance architects Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti in the 15th century. Mathematicians started developing the field a couple of hundred years later, asking questions about what properties of an object are preserved under projection.
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America Is Drowning in Packages - The Atlantic
Even in the Amazon age, the volume of packages now delivered in the U.S. can sound completely absurd. In 2000, the United States Postal Service—the country’s biggest parcel shipper—delivered 2.4 billion packages. By 2022, that number had ballooned to 7.2 billion. UPS now handles 5.2 billion domestic packages annually, versus the 3.2 billion it handled in 2000, and Amazon’s logistics operation, which did not start delivering its own packages in earnest until 2018, has become the country’s third-largest shipper, delivering almost 5 billion (but not nearly all) of the company’s packages last year. And all of these packages are going to a customer base that has been trained by retailers to expect packages to arrive in just a few days—far faster than turnaround expectations used to be.
