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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Gli 89 libri raccomandati da Paul Graham (e se scavate nel sito, anche quelli raccomandati da vari altri)

Money quote: “Paul Graham is an English-born American computer scientist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and essayist. He is best known for his work on Lisp, his former startup Viaweb, co-founding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his blog, and Hacker News”

https://www.readthistwice.com/person/paul-graham
Perché le zanzare ci amano (e ci pungono) in maniera disomogenea. Maledette loro.

Money quote: “It’s also possible that we think we’re more attractive to mosquitoes when really, we just have a strong reaction to their bites, Potter points out. Indeed, as-yet unpublished findings by De Obaldia and colleagues found that some people’s self reports of being more attractive to mosquitoes didn’t hold up in odor tests in the lab, possibly because they mistook their bite reaction for attractiveness. “

https://www.mic.com/p/why-do-mosquitoes-bite-some-people-more-than-others-scientists-weigh-in-30353008
Il soft power cinese si sta mangiando tutto il Pacifico. Così come aveva già mangiato mezza Africa. Il coronavirus sta solo accelerando questo processo. Una analisi puntuale vista dalla prospettiva dell’Australia.

Money quote: “Over the past 15 years China has dramatically scaled up its footprint in the Pacific. Chinese cranes and state-owned engineering companies are at work in every major city. Chinese trade stores are in every major town. China is now the third largest aid donor in the region, eclipsing Japan and the U.S. but still far behind Australia and New Zealand, and it is fast becoming the region's most important trading partner. Taiwan is also a player, in an effort to retain a diplomatic foothold in the Pacific which Beijing has managed to almost completely nullify”

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/china-coronavirus-aid-pacific-islands-part-geopolitical-game
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Forwarded from Riccardo
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La storia del dottore di New York che viene colpito da un fulmine e poi diventa un compositore e pianista senza aver mai suonato prima il pianoforte va un attimo rivista. Perché nel mezzo ci sono quindici anni di studio e prove ossessive. Dopo il fulmine infatti nasce il desiderio incontenibile e incontenuto, cioè praticato, e non la capacità magica fatta e finita. (E la sua prima sinfonia è molto discutibile). Insomma, i miracoli non esistono: esistono le ossessioni.

Money quote: “Well one day I get a phone call from Oliver Sacks, and he said, “I want to use your story in my book. It’s going to be in the New Yorker on July 23rd.” And suddenly, the phone started ringing off the hook. One of the people who called me was one of the heads of the music department at the State University of New York. He said, “would you consider doing a concert at the Performing Arts Centre?” and he talked me into it. I had no idea what I was getting myself into”

https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/k7e45e/tony-cicoria-got-hit-by-lightning-and-became-a-concert-pianist-acquired-savant
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