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Apoorv Upreti

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24 Oct 2020 • 1 min read

Here's a clever bit of hydraulic engineering in home appliances:

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Barber-Surgeons

Physicians who were university trained during the Renaissance considered surgery beneath them. They relegated operations—which consisted mainly of bloodletting and amputations—to the barbers; although they were merely apprenticeship trained, they had the sharpest knives. Paré was among this guild of barber-surgeons.

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Apoorv Upreti 25 Oct 2020 • 1 min read

Long Lived Institutions

The Long Now foundation on the longest living institutions. Here's an interesting bit on the bristlecone pine, a tree with an incredibly long lifespan: The bristlecone exemplifies how an existential crisis gives you practice in terms of how you’re going to survive. The

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Apoorv Upreti 23 Oct 2020 • 1 min read

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