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Hi Mr Salles, I’m a new subscriber but using your articles and YouTube videos I recently scored 26-27/30 on a Macbeth essay, the text I struggle with the most. So I’d just thought I share it for any feedback. The question was on guilt, the extract was Act 5 Scene 1 - Lady Macbeth sleep walking. Throughout the tragedy “Macbeth”, William Shakespeare constantly references guilt, its nature and focus constantly shifting.

A lot of people ask me why I am the way I am, so, after many years of holding back, I thought it was time to come clean. The truth is, it all dates back to the day in summer 1994 in the Nottingham branch of Virgin Megastore when the musician Julian Cope, who, it transpired, had been stalking me all over the city from a furtive distance on his hands and knees for several days, licked every bit of my face, coating it in his mystical saliva.

During the first decade of the 20th century, a horse named Hans drew worldwide attention as the first thinking animal. Hans solved calculations and performed other amazing feats by tapping numbers or letters with his hoof to answer questions from audience members. Apart from a few skeptics, experts were convinced that the horse was able to understand and reason like a human. And it certainly appeared that way. Then, Oscar Pfungst, a biologist and psychologist, found that the horse couldn’t answer the question if the questioning person didn’t know the answer.

You're doing all the gut health ‘things’, but how long will it take for your microbiome to change? Your first major dose of microbes happens at birth. As you traverse through and out your mother’s birth canal you’re smothered in fluid that transfers some of your mother’s microbiome to you. For babies born by cesarean, their first major dose of microbes comes from the skin microbiome of their parents, doctors, and nurses as well as from the hospital environment.

The following is adapted from Tipping Point, the latest Bible prophecy book from Jimmy Evans. Preorder Tipping Pointhere and receive an exclusive signed copy. If you pay much attention to Bible prophecy, you will hear preachers and teachers use the word “generation” on a regular basis. This is because of something Jesus said when He was teaching His disciples about the end of the age, the Great Tribulation, and His Second Coming.

In April 1913, the New York Tribune reported on a contentious trial taking place in Jersey City. The paper described the defendant’s friends as “chiefly fair, furious, and feminine.” Waiting for the verdict, supporters “feared for the worst.” The defendant in the case was not an accused thief or an alleged murderer but a women’s garment, the hobble skirt.  By 1913, the hobble skirt had been mocked and maligned from coast to coast.

I think my own recent dwelling on this is of a similar vein. It's realizing that I'm old enough to understand that I am, I'm fact ... Well, just older. And that this, in and of itself, regardless of other age groups, feels significant. It's like a silent shift from "I'm living life!" (Which really, I did without even considering I was just living life) to "Wow, youth really IS wasted on the young!

Today I’m very excited to be running a Q&A with Sara Petersen, the author of the new book Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture, which just came out last week. If you're drawn to (or repulsed by!) mom influencer culture, I recommend the book as a thoughtful and fascinating exploration of how it works and the many issues surrounding it. You can buy it here, or anywhere that sells books.

Summary: The article discusses the 'Irony of Automation', illustrating how increased automation can unexpectedly complicate human tasks. It emphasises the importance of UX professionals in addressing these challenges through human-centric design and suggests practical strategies for maintaining human engagement and skills in automated systems. "The 'Irony of Automation' is a concept that presents a curious paradox: the more we rely on advanced automated systems the more we might actually encounter human performance issues.