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One of my teammates shared with me a simple litmus test for assessing the health of her relationships: If she asks her report how things are going and the answer for multiple weeks is “Everything is fine,” she takes it as a sign to prod further. It’s much more likely that the report is shy about getting into the gory details than that everything is consistently rainbows and butterflies.
The Making of a Manager
Julie Zhuo
A platypus has an array of forty thousand electrosensors on the upper and lower surfaces of its bill. The simultaneous water movement and electric pulse were all it needed to get a direction and range.
Storm in a Teacup
Helen Czerski
Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu and Ken Liu
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