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Ro.bert
here’s your weekly dose of treats 💌
a weekly list of goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
fiery stuff I've been ingesting
Magnum is a project by Vladimir Yankovich.
Instagram is Facebook now.
WhatsApp is now trialing cryptocurrency payments.
Haptic gloves research.
What’s a scary science fact that the public knows nothing about?
The Boötes void - an enormous, approximately spherical region of space, containing very few galaxies.
True limits of humanity - the final border you will never cross
Is this 1948 toaster better than what we have today?
I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing
People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own
A database of workouts
Free public domain audiobooks
Amazon has launched a product for ‘private 5G networks in a box’
Nvidia launches Canvas AI to turn simple brushstrokes into realistic landscape images
Your nervous system structure in 40 seconds
Clubhouse was super-hot for a couple of weeks at the beginning of the year, and now it isn’t
The Search for D.B. Cooper
Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD
Mobile phone museum - The collection currently has over 2000 individual models from more than 200 different brands. There are over 3500 devices in total when duplicates are included.
Nobel Peace laureates blast tech giants and warn against rising authoritarianism
I have created a Telegram group for me to save & share random stuff that might be useful — I find it to be slightly easier vs. Discord for now, but we will see.
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latest YouTube video
Is Plato still relevant?
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— Robert