Reading List
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Some deaf children are hearing again because of a new gene therapy
In a lab room, a toddler, deaf from birth, sits while a tone plays. There’s no reaction. His face does not change. Six weeks later, after a single injection of an experimental gene therapy, the same toddler is back in the same room. The tone plays. The toddler’s head turns toward the sound. And somewhere […]
My Hero Academia's last episode 'More' gives the series its second perfect ending
MHA gets a second finale with episode 171, 'More,' which ties up loose ends and gives fans a glimpse into the lives of grown-up Deku and his friends.
Between Devil Wears Prada movies, Anne Hathaway became a kaiju
The underseen gem Colossal is streaming on Netflix. This offbeat monster movie is one of Hathaway's best films. She says so herself.
Heather Cox Richardson grades America
How would you grade America’s first 250 years? That’s the question I posed to historian and professor Heather Cox Richardson on this week’s episode of America, Actually — and a question I pose to myself. All grades are subjective, and the rubric of whether America earns a passing grade is one of position and perspective, […]
A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO — The chief financial officer is managing Sam Altman—and ambitions for one of the biggest IPOs ever. She has pulled off impossible ones before.