Source: New York Times
“Musical theater is always inherently emotional,” Jessie Eisenerg
The article also contains a good list of Broadway songs.
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🔗 Great Quote about Live Theatre
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🔗 FaceID and TouchID Not Good Enough
This issue has been talked about for years, courts have been saying that your face and/or fingerprint can be compelled to unlock your phone while they can’t force you to give up the pass code in your head. John Gruber wrote about this a few years ago, and the article contains some good advice that everyone should heed.
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🔗 Keep Drinking that Coffee
The study has not yet been published. But MindBio’s CEO Justin Hanka recently released the top-line results on his LinkedIn, eager to show that his company was “in front of the curve in microdosing research.” He called it “the most vigorous placebo controlled trial ever performed in microdosing.” It found that patients dosed with a small amount of LSD (ranging from 4 to 20μg, or micrograms, well below the threshold of a mind-blowing hallucinogenic dose) showed observable upticks in feelings of well-being, but worse MADRS scores, compared to patients given a placebo in the form of a caffeine pill. (Because patients in psychedelic trials typically expect some kind of mind-altering effect, studies are often blinded using so-called “active placebos,” like caffeine or methylphenidate, which have their own observable psychoactive properties.)
This means, essentially, that a medium-strength cup of coffee may prove more beneficial in treating major depressive disorder than a tiny dose of acid. Good news for habitual caffeine users, perhaps, but less so for researchers (and biopharma startups) counting on the efficacy of psychedelic microdosing.
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Well given I drink multiple cups of coffee, I should be all set. Two 32oz french press made coffee per morning is normal right?
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🔗 2026 ZiPS Projections: New York Mets
Despite last season’s collapse, ZiPS projects the Mets as a highly competitive team in the NL East, and one the league shouldn’t dismiss
I know it might not feel like it, but the Mets are better today than they were on the last day of the season.
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🔗 How the Great Cobblestone Streets are Fixed
These streets date back to when New York, now the largest city in the United States, was a Dutch outpost. And in the more than three and a half centuries since, the painstaking way the stones must be laid by hand has not changed.
Although they are called cobblestone streets, Mr. Berman said that most were actually made of chunks of granite, known as Belgian Blocks. Cobblestones are not a specific kind of stone, but include a variety of natural stones from places like rivers and fields that are typically rounded and irregularly shaped. Belgian Blocks, which were used as ship ballast, were extracted from quarries and cut into mainly rectangular blocks of uniform size.
I love stories and articles like this. That is why you can’t just live in a top stories section.
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🔗 Anil Dash on Zohran
So much of what people hear in politics is negative and threatening. Zohran’s opponents spoke almost exclusively_about how people should be scared and angry. But the undeniable energy of the Mamdani campaign has been joy — an effusive, exuberant, _contagious joy. Even when times are hard, maybe _especially_when times are hard, people are drawn to that joy. And they’ve been missing leaders who offer them a positive vision. They don’t want to hear horrifying visions of “American carnage”, especially when they know those are lies designed to manipulate. A better world is possible.
This is literally the best thing I have read on the Mamdani campaign.