Tag: Existential
Can MLB save the starting pitcher? The search for solutions to baseball’s ‘existential crisis’
Who’s pitching tonight?
For 100 years, that wasn’t just a casual question. It was the question that defined baseball.
The answer always had a chance to give you goosebumps. Maybe it was Tom Seaver versus Steve Carlton. Maybe it was Sandy Koufax versus Bob Gibson. Maybe it was Pedro Martinez versus Randy Johnson.
They weren’t just a reason to watch. They were the reason to watch. They threw the first pitch of the game. They often stuck around to throw
AI Doesn’t Pose an Existential Risk—but Silicon Valley Does
The Influencer Industry Is Having an Existential Crisis
Close to 5 million people follow Influencers in the Wild. The popular Instagram account makes fun of the work that goes into having a certain other kind of popular Instagram account: A typical post catches a woman (and usually, her butt) posing for photos in public, often surrounded by people but usually operating in total ignorance or disregard of them. In the comments, viewers—aghast at the goofiness and self-obsession on display—like to say that it’s time for a proverbial asteroid
The Existential Wonder of Space
Of all the moons in the solar system, Saturn’s largest satellite might be the most extraordinary. Titan is enveloped in a thick, hazy atmosphere, and liquid methane rains gently from its sky, tugged downward by a fraction of the gravity we feel on Earth. The methane forms rivers, lakes, and small seas on Titan’s surface. Beneath the frigid ground, composed of ice as hard as rock, is even more liquid, a whole ocean of plain old H2O.
The wildest part
Maude Latour, Studentin an der Columbia, macht existential Pop
Name: Maude Latour
Das Alter: 22
Heimatort: New York City
Jetzt lebt: In einer Vier-Zimmer-Wohnung in der Nähe der Columbia University, mit denselben vier Mitbewohnern, mit denen sie seit dem ersten Jahr zusammenlebt.
Anspruch auf Ruhm: Ms. Latour ist eine Singer-Songwriterin, deren edler Indie-Pop sich mit der Vergänglichkeit auseinandersetzt. Sie schreibt über das Verfassen eines Briefes an ihr zukünftiges Ich, über die Reinigung eines Schlafzimmers, das immer unordentlich wird, und über ihre jüngste Single „Trees“ über die Trauer um ihre
EU candidate status could be an ‘existential’ message to Tbilisi, Georgian ambassador says – EURACTIV.com
Gaining EU candidate status would be a crucial and existential political message that today the door is open for Georgia, and there is light at the end of the tunnel, Tbilisi’s Ambassador to the EU, Vakhtang Makharoblishvili, told EURACTIV.
INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:
- Georgia regrets that it takes a war to think about enlargement as a transformative process.
- Granting EU candidate status should be done for each country in the Associated Trio but Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine could move at different speeds
The Real Existential Threat Is Our Overheating Planet
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