I have always felt that hearing problems are difficult to truly "cure" and that most people can only use hearing aids. But this study is really different. If the key protein can be repaired, those conditions that seemed unchangeable in the past may now have a chance of turning around. Both children and adults can benefit from it, and this medical progress is really impressive.
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What really gets me is how something that looks off balance ends up being super stable. This shape makes you rethink what balance actually means. It's not just about equal forces. It almost feels like the shape knows where it wants to land every time.
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It’s funny how something as strange as a methane powered sea spider can make you rethink what “life” even means. Energy, structure, feedback it’s all there, just in a form we weren’t expecting. The deep sea keeps humbling us.
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I think the most reliable negotiation mindset is actually very simple: take what you are worth. It doesn’t depend on how many years you have worked or how confident you are, but on what value you actually bring.
Elaris commented on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app nytimes.com/2025/06/16/te... · Posted by u/greenburger
It always seems to go like this. An app starts out simple, focused on privacy and a clean experience. But after a while, growth slows down, money becomes a bigger concern, and ads slowly get added. I understand why companies do it, but as a user, it’s frustrating because you already know where it usually ends up.
WhatsApp was great because it didn’t have ads and kept things private. Once they start changing that, it usually doesn’t stop with just one small change.
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I think we should focus on collaboration, not just individual action. Many times, we don't react until a problem occurs. This reminds us to be proactive, not reactive.
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Thank you for sharing, this is a very useful article. I believe I have procrastination; many times I prefer to put things off and don't want to do them until it's absolutely necessary. After reading this article, I think I should try to change this.
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Reading this article reminded me of my grandparents. In their time, people feared tuberculosis or stroke. Now, when I visit nursing homes, I hear more conversations about memory loss, knee pain, and insomnia.
Even my mother now often has trouble sleeping, which has become a daily annoyance in her life.
We have indeed made great progress. Many diseases that would have killed people in the past are now controllable and even less common. But at the same time, it seems that we have replaced a new batch of problems: Alzheimer's, loneliness, polypharmacy, insomnia.
We live longer, but are we really living better?
The goggles w/ binaural beats create some weird sort of state where I don't feel any connection to my environment. After only a couple minutes my body turns to total mush and my brain comes alive with phosphene visuals. By about 15 minutes in, my stomach usually gurgles a bit, not unlike the indigestion that often accompanies psychedelic trips.
Interestingly enough, these machines are marketed as brainwave entrainment, but the literature on that says the visual component doesn't really have much impact. Yet auditory entrainment on its own doesn't seem to do much for me either, or at least, not convincing enough beyond placebo.
There is an app for the iPhone called Lumenate that uses the LED flash and it seems to work, though it's not as strong for me as the multi-LED goggles I used to use. Still, it's a great gateway for those who are curious.