‘Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.’

Albert Einstein

https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/pages/crusoe-energy-b-and-i-2021.html

how renewable energy gets generated and how it actually gets consumed

Erma Bombeck:

“Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l554kV12Wuo

Whenever I look at anything, I wonder how it works, and then I wonder how it could work better. Could I make it work better? Is there a technology I could use? Is there a way I can reconfigure it? Is there a radical breakthrough I could do for lateral thinking that would make a huge difference? So I just think like that all the time - Sir James Dyson

I don’t have a dishwasher, and my life is better for it. I do my dishes by hand, immediately after each meal. I put on headphones and listen to two to three songs. I sing to myself a little. 

https://www.gawker.com/culture/against-the-dishwasher

“We are protecting prices, it’s as important to our guests this year as safety has been throughout the pandemic.” 

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/17/target-tgt-q3-2021earnings.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/internet-newsletters-dave-pell/620664/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-amazing-things-youll-do-in-the-metaverse-and-what-it-will-take-to-get-there-11634396401

California women gave birth to each other’s babies after IVF mix-up