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karolina olsson went to bed in sweden in 1876 at 14 years old and, according to the historical record, did not properly wake again until 1908, 32 years later. what makes the story even stranger is that after waking she could still read and write, remembered what she had learned before the episode, and was later described as mentally intact.

the part i find most fascinating is that we still do not really know what those 32 years were. sleep, catatonia, an unusual psychiatric condition, something partly performed, or some combination of things? even contemporary accounts left major questions unanswered. there is something deeply unsettling about a life containing three decades that nobody, including the person who lived them, can fully explain.

making a foldable phone and not calling it ifold is a complete lack of vision.

one of those judges whose name is much less famous than the idea his ruling helped protect. in 1982, william overton struck down an arkansas law that required public schools to give creation science balanced treatment with evolution. what makes the decision especially interesting is that he did not just say creationism was religious. he tried to articulate what makes something science in the first place: it has to deal with the natural world, be testable, remain open to revision, and be falsifiable. a courtroom ended up becoming a surprisingly important place for defining the boundary between belief and scientific inquiry.

i think you should.

back in college, a group of our friends got into a really bad car crash. the mercedes rolled several times and was completely totaled.

there were five people in the car. only one of them ended up spending a few weeks in the hospital because he was not wearing a seat belt and got thrown out through the window.

the other four, including the people sitting in the back, were wearing theirs.

they walked away without so much as a bloody nose.

spending 18 years in the s&p 100 and then basically being told, “you’re not top 100 anymore,” is a pretty brutal slap in the face for nike.

the company was worth around $264 billion in 2021. now it is closer to $57 billion.

the interesting part is not that nike is disappearing. it is that one of the most recognizable sports brands in the world has lost some of its old dominance while hoka, on, adidas, and chinese brands have gained ground.

and nike is still nike. the swoosh is still one of the most recognizable logos on earth.

the problem is not brand awareness.

people just do not seem to have the same “if it is nike, i want it” mentality anymore.

so nike’s real challenge is not being recognized.

it is becoming the brand people actively choose again.

it was the coolest for years...

whatever went wrong, it happened sometime in the last 10 or 15 years.

no face id, no haptic feedback, and no earpiece speaker for regular phone calls.

so you are either on speakerphone in public like an asshole or carrying airpods everywhere.