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The Fibre Fad Keeps On Moving
August 23, 2026Creating a “cast” for your spine
August 23, 2026Creating a “cast” for your spine
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understanding is that I need to pull in my belly button and try to bring my ribs together near my stomach, while at the same time pushing out my upper chest and tightening the muscles in my mid-back to bring my shoulder blades together, and then, finally, preserving the arch in my lower back. I hope I’ve captured this correctly and that these are the four main things I need to remember for maintaining good posture and for picking up heavy objects.
Another way to think about it is to think of your spine as bamboo not a bendy straw.
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Opinion | The Silicon Valley Health Trend Making Doctors Nervous
August 23, 2026Opinion | The Silicon Valley Health Trend Making Doctors Nervous – The
New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/opinion/health-data-trend-body.html
NYTimes: How to Stop a Lab Leak From Starting the Next Pandemic
August 23, 2026Slimes to display
August 23, 2026Images Slider With JavaScript. After watching a video on how to make a… | by Dimterion | Medium
August 23, 2026These Foods Might Lower Cancer Risk – The New York Times
August 23, 2026These Foods Might Lower Cancer Risk – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/well/food-diet-nutrition-cancer-risk.html
In Turning to Trade School, Gen Z Confronts an Enduring Stigma
August 22, 2026A letter I wrote in response to this piece : {{
I read the recent NY Times article, “Mom, Dad, I Want to Be a Welder,” with great interest. It describes a growing number of young people choosing skilled trades over traditional white-collar careers. One of the motivations they cite is the belief that occupations requiring manual dexterity are less likely to be displaced by AI than office work. This strikes me as reasonable. AI has already demonstrated remarkable success at many tasks long considered hallmarks of white-collar expertise: scoring highly on medical examinations, drafting legal documents, solving difficult mathematical problems, and writing software. By contrast, robots still struggle with the manual dexterity required for many everyday physical tasks, such as tying shoelaces.
Yet there is an irony here. Traditionally, blue-collar workers report to white-collar managers. If AI increasingly takes over white-collar functions, we could find ourselves in a future where large numbers of human tradespeople report to organizations whose scheduling, dispatching, performance evaluation, and even hiring are increasingly directed by AIs. In that sense, AI may not directly replace the electrician, plumber, or welder, but it may still reshape—and increasingly govern—the environment in which they work.
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In Turning to Trade School, Gen Z Confronts an Enduring Stigma – The
New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/style/gen-z-trade-school-careers-ai-college.html
Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.
August 22, 2026A letter I wrote in response to this:
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I read Bret Stephens’ recent editorial about why we shouldn’t use AI for writing with great interest. It was a wonderfully written piece. However, I disagree with it. Stephens has the luxury of telling us not to use AI for writing because he’s such a good writer himself. What about all the people who can’t write as well as he can and for whom AI is beneficial, particularly non-native English speakers?
I like to compare AI writing to an elevator. It’s easy for a person who is in great athletic shape to say, “Don’t take the elevator. It’s great exercise to walk upstairs.” But many people need elevators and simply can’t make it upstairs. Furthermore, the advent of the elevator helps even fit people reach new building heights that simply would not be possible under their own power. In a similar way, I think AI will allow us to create things – both written and beyond – that are simply beyond unassisted human power.
So while I thought Stephens’ piece was great, it’s time for skilled writers to embrace the progress of AI — and not resent it.
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Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/artificial-intelligence-ai-writing.html Bret Stephens’ recent editorial
