Five Things: Doing Nothing, Self-Checkout, Brain Waste, Radioactive Cancer Treatment, IBM PC
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This weekend I spent most of my time in the car, going down to Vienna, which is 960 km away from Hamburg to help our oldest daughter to pack up her belongings and hauling her and her stuff back to Hamburg after four semesters at the University of Vienna. She will be spending the next semester at the University of Uppsala in Sweden and I couldn’t be more proud of her. I love Vienna and we managed to get an amazing Wiener Schnitzel at my favorite restaurant in Vienna. Such an amazing city. Although I have to admit that I’d rather be in Maryland right now attending the wedding of my American kid brother TD.
We got back to Hamburg just in time to watch the game and see Germany beat Denmark 2:0. I love Denmark a lot and I think their fans are just wonderful. I fondly remember the Danes winning the European Championship in 1992 with a ragtag team of players who were on vacation already and slightly unfit when they got the surprise invitation to compete. Their fans were yelling “we are red, we are white, we are danish dynamite” and helped push the team from victory to victory. But not this year. Germany has a great team that works well under pressure and didn’t get distracted by a thunderstorm either, when the game had to be paused. Anyhow, I’m a bit tired after the long drive, but happy to be back in Hamburg. Oh, and I still managed to get some reading done.
Here are the five articles I picked out this week! Enjoy!
Doing Nothing Has Never Been More Important
Before you do nothing, finish reading this newsletter. But then, please do nothing.
The Scourge of Self-Checkout
My kids love the self-checkout terminals, because kids always like pressing buttons. While I admit that self-checkout is getting better and sometimes helps getting into the fast lane, for instance at IKEA, a lot of times it just slows you down. Like yesterday, when I bought some stuff, including a can of beer and then had to wait for a person to show up and tell the machine that I am indeed old enough to buy a mildly alcoholic beverage.
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The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes
This is fascinating stuff. Trust me, read this article.
Radioactive drugs strike cancer with precision
Cancer is really the one thing I fear. The advances in radioactive treatments look really promising. Still, I’d rather not get cancer in the first place.
The Misfit Who Built the IBM PC
Until I read this article, I had no idea who built the first IBM PC. Of course I know the Apple story inside out, but somehow I never had anyone telling the story of the IBM PC. It’s a good one!
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— Nico