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Warren Buffett’s 2023 Annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders

May 4, 2024February 25, 2024

Image: on YouTube Charlie Munger – The Architect of Berkshire Hathaway Charlie Munger died on November 28, just 33 days before his 100th birthday. Though born and raised in Omaha, he spent 80% of his life domiciled elsewhere. Consequently, it was not until 1959 when he was 35 that I first met him. In 1962, …

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More than Human

November 14, 2025December 22, 2023

Juan Villoro Prostheses, corrective surgery, and the growing importance of self-perception in defining identity have motivated certain avant-gardists to enter posthuman territory. Trans-species experiences have disproved those who thought that transsexuality was the last physiological frontier. Predictably, some of these innovations have occurred in Barcelona. …

The Hidden Comrade

November 14, 2025December 20, 2023

Juan Villoro Espionage is inseparable from English literature. Daniel Defoe, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and, of course, David Cornwell, better known as John Le Carré, were secret agents. The enigmas of loyalty and betrayal fascinate a profession that depends on conceiving and manipulating the lives …

“All the better to eat you with!”

November 14, 2025November 22, 2023

Juan Villoro How tasty are we? Some people lack salt, and others stimulate all the senses. Love is whimsical. No one understood it better than Italo Calvino, whose centenary is celebrated these days. His most fruitful reflections on food and passion occurred precisely in Mexico. …

Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain

November 14, 2023November 13, 2023

In this lecture, Steven Pinker, renowned linguist and Harvard Psychology Professor, discusses linguistics as a window to understanding the human brain. How is it that human beings have come to acquire language? Steven Pinker’s introduction to the field includes thoughts on the evolution of spoken …

Saturn’s magnificent rings will vanish in just 18 months.

November 13, 2023

Eric Ralls, earth.com Staff writer In 1610, Galileo Galilei, renowned as the pioneer of modern astronomy, first laid eyes on Saturn’s magnificent rings. His initial observations through an early, rudimentary telescope led him to describe these celestial features as resembling “ears.” Now, centuries later, the …

The Wisdom to Ignore

November 14, 2025October 25, 2023

Juan Villoro I dreamt of being introduced to a guru I had been searching for years. Each visitor was granted a question; when it was my turn, I said, “Master, what is the purpose of reading?” With a smile, he replied, “To read less.” Photo: VD Photography on Unsplash I woke up with that uneasiness …

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Eleven rules for life (Genius Rules)

September 7, 2023

Naval Ravikant THE ANTI-NEWSLETTER I’m creating the “Anti-Newsletter” — A Publication with only timeless information (the opposite of news). Why? The “Lindy Effect” states that the longer an idea has been around, the longer it will still be around. Thus the older the idea, the …

Epigenetics and Aging: The Effects of DNA Breakage and Repair

September 6, 2023September 5, 2023

Harvard Medical School Loss of Epigenetic Information Can Drive Aging, Restoration Can Reverse It A 13-year international study in mice demonstrates that loss of epigenetic information, which influences how DNA is organized and regulated, can drive aging independently of changes to the genetic code itself. …

The Meaning of Life(Cartoon) Be Happy: To Help You Live Happy Kife

August 29, 2023

Monica Sheehan At the Author’s request, here is a much more moving and beautiful video that also incorporates messages visually, last but not least, it shows the book at the end. The illustrations and the captions are from the book “Be Happy: A Little Book …

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