Welcome!

Welcome to thirty-two eleven (”3211”). This newsletter will entail: 3 Reads, 2 Rabbit Holes, 1 Watch, and 1 Listen — 3/2/1/1. Detailing what I have been up to, on the internet.

introduction:

Tim Ferriss on the Andrew Huberman podcast, speaking on the large wave of human optimization fanatics (fitness, ice baths, athletic greens, etc.) thinking it will lead to success

Tim Ferriss: "I do think that, a lot of the time, we like to imagine because we're driven, smart, accomplished people that our problems are very complex. At the end of the day, you just need some time in nature and a cold shower and some fucking macadamia nuts, and you'll be fine"

3 reads:

1 - Inside an office building in Suburban Ohio, The Deep Space Food Challenge is taking place. A contest sponsored by NASA and the Canadian Space Agency where teams are given a simple task: Create foods that will not only feed a crew of astronauts on a deep-space mission to Mars for at least three years but also improve life on Earth. This article dives into the contestants competing to win.

2 - Starting this past Sunday, a team of four volunteers will spend the next year inside a 1,700 square foot 3-D printed habitat at the Johnson Space Center.

3 - In September 2006, the Mayor of Sao Paulo banned all outdoor advertisements (billboards, banners, TV Screens, etc.) This details the effect on citizens 5 years+ afterwards.

2 rabbit holes:

1 - You can be woken up by Kobe Bryant using Arlo, the AI Alarm Assistant. The video shows pretty well how it works.

2 - Unfortunately last Friday was the last day of the Fish Doorbell season until March. This website went viral on the internet allowing people to open a gate for fish in the Netherlands.

Every spring, fish swim right through Utrecht, Netherlands looking for a place to spawn and reproduce. Some swim all the way to Germany. There is a problem, however: they often have to wait a long time at the Weerdsluis lock on the west side of the inner city, as the lock rarely opens in spring.

The Netherlands came up with a solution: the fish doorbell. An underwater camera has been set up at the lock, and the live feed is streamed to the homepage. If you see a fish, you press the digital fish doorbell. The lock operator is sent a signal and can open the lock if there are enough fish.

1 watch:

1 - The crowd at a Green Day concert at Hyde Park, London in 2017 (26 years following Queen’s death) singing Bohemian Rhapsody while waiting for the act to start.

1 listen:

1 - Lane8’s new Summer 2023 Mix

Cheers,