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James is recovering well from the dual transplant last May and the donated eye looks remarkably healthy. Whatever happens next, James' surgery offers scientists an unprecedented window into how the human eye tries to heal. The hurdle is how to regrow the optic nerve, although animal studies are making strides, Goldberg added. James’ optic nerve clearly hasn't healed. Yet when light was flashed into the donated eye during an MRI, the scan recorded some sort of brain signaling.

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☆ An Epic Pilgrimage Across Three Great Religions
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Aatish Taseer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +111 min

Before there was tourism, there was pilgrimage: a trip of endurance, hardship and ecstasy in celebration of one’s faith. On an epic pilgrimage of his own, one writer ventures into the heart of three great religions in Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq. The Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala the day after Ashura. “They’re poor, but they come thousands of kilometers for the love of Imam Hussein.” PILGRIMAGE WAS A great equalizer. “Labaik ya Hussein,” came the solemn chorus of surrounding voices.

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Mortgage rates have dropped substantially across the board, with 30-year mortgage rates back down to levels we haven't seen since late September. See more mortgage rates on Zillow Real Estate on ZillowMortgage CalculatorUse our free mortgage calculator to see how today's mortgage rates would impact your monthly payments. Mortgage Rates for Buying a Home30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Drop Drastically (-0.53%)The current average 30-year fixed mortgage rate is 7.08%, down a whopping 53 basis points since this time last week. 20-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Plunge (-0.56%)The average 20-year fixed mortgage rate is down 56 basis points from last week and sits at 6.82%. 15-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Go Down (-0.35%)The average 15-year mortgage rate is 6.44%, down quite a bit compared to last week.

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☆ Analysis: Donald Trump’s day in court paints a dark preview of the national ordeal ahead
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“It is an extremely hostile judge,” Trump added, raising his hand to point at Engoron, who sat beside and just above the witness box on the bench. President.” Trump has long posed as the alpha male and his entire business and political creed — in person and on social media – is based on intimidation. But the trial quickly became a test of wills between Trump and Engoron over who controlled the court. But by the end of the day, Engoron’s resolve frayed: “It feels like a broken record,” he said of Trump’s answers. This desire to make a reality just what he wants it to be has long defined Trump’s political approach.

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☆ Moving back to New York weeks before COVID lockdown forced me to confront my 9/11 trauma – but taught me to live in the moment
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Jason Eddy, who's an actor, moved from London to New York with his husband in late 2019. Eddy shares his experience of moving back to New York and what the city has taught him. AdvertisementAdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jason Eddy about his experiences of relocating from London to New York. Jason Eddy Jason EddyBut then 9/11 happened. Jason Eddy says living in New York has taught him to say "why not?"

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We are actually going to be looking at this in the very early days of generative AI. casey newtonYeah, this feels like one of the big questions in AI right now. rebecca tushnetSo I see why you say that’s strange, but in fact, it’s exactly how you would make a general-purpose tool. But now, finally, along come these new technologies to take them down a peg, and they’re actually going to have to work for a living. So maybe they’re slapping, like, AI sort of things around the stories that they’re aggregating.

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☆ Netflix DVDs, Scorsese and Me
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Gabe Cohn | More About Gabe Cohn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The DVD service was particularly handy when I decided to embark on a career-spanning marathon of all Martin Scorsese’s movies. The most rented movie overall was “The Blind Side” (never saw it) and the most rented TV show “Dexter” (a video store rental for me in 2010). The “Tár” outlier speaks to one of the beautiful aspects of the Netflix DVD. (Don’t sleep on De Niro’s deliciously unhinged performance in “The King of Comedy.”) For all Netflix DVD users, though, De Niro rests at a healthy but comparatively modest fifth place. In this way, the DVD service acted more as an overstuffed old-school video store.

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☆ Dating is hard. Have apps made it worse?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Leah Asmelash | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

“Dating on the apps, it’s ruined dating a bit,” Nguyen-Don, who works as a digital marketing manager, said. “The… design of those dating apps should definitely be held accountable for this kind of dating culture,” Zhou said. His experiences on dating apps were positive, he said, and he valued the ways they introduced him to new people and new experiences. Dating apps know this. For all their flaws, dating apps are unlikely to disappear any time soon.

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See more mortgage rates on Zillow Real Estate on ZillowMortgage CalculatorUse our free mortgage calculator to see how today's mortgage rates would impact your monthly payments. Mortgage Rates for Buying a Home30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Decrease Slightly (-0.05%)The current average 30-year fixed mortgage rate is 7.63%, down five basis points since this time last week. 20-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Go Down (-0.12%)The average 20-year fixed mortgage rate is down 12 basis points from last week and sits at 7.41%. 15-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Barely Inch Down (-0.02%)The average 15-year mortgage rate is 6.87%, nearly flat compared to last week. Mortgage rates have risen throughout 2023, and they're higher than they were in November 2022.

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☆ Charlie Munger says he dislikes fashion stocks like Nike - but he'd buy Hermès stock if it was cheap enough
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Charlie Munger avoids fashion stocks like Nike, but he'd invest in Hermès at a compelling price. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAdvertisementCharlie Munger isn't a fan of fashion retail, but there's one luxury stock he'd own at the right price. Buffett's business partner also touched on Kraft Heinz, which counts Berkshire as its biggest shareholder with a nearly 27% stake. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Kirkland is a brand the way Tide is a brand, and Hermès is a different kind of a brand," Munger said.

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☆ An Australian couple bought land on an Indonesian island and built a luxury hotel. Here's how they did it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Claire Turrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Two Australians, Jess and Daniel Baldock, bought a plot on the Indonesian island of Sumba. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn April 2018, Jess and Daniel Baldock flew from their native Australia to the Indonesian island of Sumba — and never left. He encouraged Jess Baldock to buy a plot of land, sight unseen, in the beachside village of Kerewe, which is surrounded by mangroves and waterfalls. "The only time we left the site was on everyone's lunch break or after work," Jess Baldock said. Some walls were built, knocked down, and rebuilt until workers reached the standard that Daniel Baldock knew they needed to achieve.

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☆ A 24-year-old who has built multiple businesses around Amazon got his start doing wholesale on a $1,500 budget. He explains how to pick a product to resell for profit.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

There are a few different ways to make money selling products on Amazon : arbitrage, wholesale, and private label. You aren't building your own product; you're simply reselling an existing product. What sets it apart from arbitrage is that you're buying products in bulk directly from a brand or distributor. To avoid the same mistake, you want to look at the listing page of the product you're interested in selling. How to pick a product to sell wholesaleAfter the wholesale mistake, "I went back to the drawing board," said Naran.

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☆ I'm a Google engineering exec who has conducted over 1,000 interviews. Here are the 4 mistakes I've seen even the best candidates make.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Daniel Rizea | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Being tired and not preparing for behavioral questions are two mistakes Rizea sees often. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe only way to overcome this is to practice and recall the theory:Try to solve interview questions on your own, and talk out loud through the solution. I have seen many candidates scheduling interviews after a long day of work or at the end of the work week. But behavioral questions are more subjective, and it's harder to know if you said the right things during a behavioral interview. For behavioral questions, interviewers expect answers along this format:AdvertisementAdvertisementWhat happened?

Persons: Daniel Rizea, Rizea, —, I've, they'll, You'll, they're, Let's Organizations: Google, Service

☆ Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

Talk Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth“I’m all for heroism,” Marina Abramovic says. You can find bliss and be happy; you don’t need to be with somebody you don’t love. But if you have unconditional love, general love for the planet, human beings, the rocks, the trees, everything else, this is the love that nourishes. It is important not to fear pain, to understand pain and accept it. You ever have love pain?

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☆ Israel’s body collectors encounter horrors beyond their worst nightmares
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Weeks on, as the war continues to rage, ZAKA volunteers are still collecting remains. The aftermath of the attack is so gruesome that only the most experienced ZAKA volunteers are allowed to take part in body collection. On Friday, he and other ZAKA volunteers were combing through homes in Be’eri for the second time, finding more victims and collecting remains left behind during their first visit. As ZAKA volunteers worked in Be’eri, several busloads of foreign journalists arrived, escorted by the IDF. Most ZAKA volunteers say that they haven’t begun to process the trauma, and when they can step away, they don’t want to think.

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Depending on their credit score, borrowers could see 30-year mortgage rates between 7.544% and 9.133% on a $300,000 loan, according to myFICO. See more mortgage rates on Zillow Real Estate on ZillowMortgage CalculatorUse our free mortgage calculator to see how today's mortgage rates would impact your monthly payments. Mortgage Rates for Buying a Home30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Inch up Very Slightly (+0.05%)The current average 30-year fixed mortgage rate is 7.68%, up five basis points since this time last week. 20-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates go Down (-0.10%)The average 20-year fixed mortgage rate is down 10 basis points from last week and sits at 7.53%. 15-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Increase (+0.17%)The average 15-year mortgage rate is 6.89%, an increase from last week.

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☆ Can anyone save the internet? Neal Agarwal is trying, one Hampster Dance at a time.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Brian Barrett | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Internet Artifacts is the latest project from Neal Agarwal, the creative 25-year-old coder who launched neal.fun six years ago today. "I grew up at the tail end of that era of the internet," Agarwal said. Internet Artifacts has taken closer to three months. Internet Artifacts takes several touchstones of the anteplatformian internet and places them on literal digital pedestals. As delightful as Internet Artifacts is to click through, it also provides valuable context for Agarwal's larger ambition.

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How to Win the Restaurant Reservation Game Scoring a table in New York can seem impossible, but may be easier than you think. Meanwhile, with just three weeks to go, we’re still on the waiting list, which has grown to nearly 60 names. 3 DAYS OUT The Realist Andrew Harroz, 39, a lawyer in Oklahoma City, and his fiancée get a notification that a 5 p.m. reservation table is open. Let patience pay off Even if a restaurant is fully booked, ask to put your name on a waiting list. It’s not a great night for romance: A couple whose reservation for two included the note “Considering proposing” leave the restaurant.

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☆ Wall Street and money moved into South Florida, driving up prices. Now some residents want to move out.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

They're looking to nearby smaller cities in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. They're picking places like Knoxville, Tennessee; Greenville, South Carolina; Huntsville, Alabama; and Asheville, North Carolina; which she collectively refers to as "the Villes." AdvertisementAdvertisementWhy CEOs moved their lives — and their businesses — to FloridaWall Street moved to South Florida in droves in 2020 and 2021. Billionaire hedge-fund CEOs — like Citadel's Ken Griffin — paid record-shattering amounts for South Florida homes , added offices, and moved their businesses there entirely from New York, Chicago, and Silicon Valley. They bought a 2,400-square-foot, four-bedroom home on an acre of land for the same price in Greenville, South Carolina.

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☆ I spent 4 hours running for my life at the Nova festival. A man in a white pickup truck rescued me, but I never learned what happened to him after he returned for more people.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She and her friends spent four hours running through the desert before they were rescued. The festival security, at this point, had turned off the music and asked everybody to go straight to their vehicles. After getting to our car, the festival security asked everybody to drive down in one direction on the dirt road. We started driving and the festival security started asking everyone to turn around and go in another direction. As soon as we heard the gunshots we just opened our doors and started running for our lives.

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casey newton[CHUCKLES]:: And it would be so funny if the AI actually already was deceptive and was just like, oh, yeah, Kevin, you’ve already figured us out. But I also think it’s part of this sort of undercurrent of the conversation, especially around AI right now. Marc Andreessen — he is clearly so angry at all of the people who criticize technology, technology companies, tech investors. And he is just really, really going after that crowd with this piece. brent sealesYou know I don’t really know.

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Ever since the Fed started raising rates in early 2022, mortgage rates have skyrocketed. Average 15-year mortgage rates also inched up, and threaten to topple 7% for the first time in 23 years. See more mortgage rates on Zillow Real Estate on ZillowMortgage CalculatorUse our free mortgage calculator to see how today's mortgage rates would impact your monthly payments. Mortgage Rates for Buying a Home30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Increase (+0.38%)The current average 30-year fixed mortgage rate is 7.72%, up 38 basis points since this time last week. 15-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Up a Bit (+0.21%)The average 15-year mortgage rate is 6.77%, an increase from last week.

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☆ Six bull sharks inadvertently made their home on an Australian golf course. Then they vanished
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Because Carbrook in Queensland boasted a membership unlike any other golf club on the planet: six resident bull sharks. A new corridor was opened and – sometime during those three temporary windows – six bull sharks glided into uncharted waters. Carbrook Golf Club Shark in the LakeMedia interest boomed, and the club embraced its toothy tenants with vigor. Their extended residence, he argued, sheds new light on just how adaptable bull sharks are. A stay of at least 17 years in low-salinity waters — more than half a bull shark’s lifespan — was unprecedented.

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☆ What really happens when you threaten to leave your job and why it rarely ends in your favor, according to former Microsoft VP of HR
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Chris Williams | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementIf the threat to leave comes as a surprise, it's not a reflection on the company or your manager. If you threaten to leave with another job in hand, what's a manager to do? If you're seen as already gone and are now resorting to threats, your manager will often recognize the futility of any effort to rescue you. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe threat feels like blackmailIn any of these cases, your threat to leave feels like blackmail — do this "or else." In almost every case, when you make the threat, you've already lost.

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☆ A biographer spent years following Elon Musk and Steve Jobs. Here's how he says they're alike — and how they're different
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Sarah Jackson | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Walter Isaacson trailed Elon Musk for years and interviewed Steve Jobs over 40 times to write their biographies. Elon Musk's biographer, Walter Isaacson, once said that the Tesla CEO was "in some ways the Steve Jobs of our time." AdvertisementAdvertisementBoth Musk and Jobs had a "dark streak""When I was reporting on Steve Jobs, his partner Steve Wozniak said that the big question to ask was 'Did he have to be so mean? AdvertisementAdvertisementIsaacson said Steve Jobs (left) took on the role of "alpha male" at Apple and "marginalized" his cofounder Steve Wozniak (right). "As much as I think Steve Jobs is a total genius, Steve Jobs would design a product, be it the Mac or the iPhone, and then it would be thrown over the wall to some manufacturing facility in China or something.

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