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A self-taught Irish schoolteacher wrote a book in 1854 that almost nobody read for 80 years, until a 21-year-old MIT student picked it up and realized it could be used to design every computer in human history. His name was George Boole. The book is called An Investigation of the Laws of Thought. Boole was born in 1815 in Lincoln, England. His family was poor. He left school at 16 to support them. He taught himself Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian. Then he taught himself mathematics. By 19 he had opened his own school. By 24 he was publishing original papers in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, competing with men who had spent decades inside the best universities in Britain. He never had a degree. He never had a mentor. In 1849, Queen's College in Cork hired him as a professor anyway. In 1854, he published his masterwork. What he built inside it was something nobody had attempted before at this scale. He turned logic into algebra. Before Boole, logic was philosophy. You argued in sentences. You reasoned in paragraphs. It was powerful and completely impossible to automate, because there was no formal system underneath it, just language. Boole stripped it down to arithmetic. He showed that every act of human reasoning could be reduced to operations on two values. True or false. One or zero. AND, OR, NOT. If both conditions are true, the result is true. If neither is, the result is false. Every judgment a human mind makes, every decision, every deduction, could be written as an equation following those rules. Logicians read it. They found it interesting. Engineers building machines had never heard of it. For 83 years, the book sat there. Then in 1937, a 21-year-old MIT master's student named Claude Shannon was working on a thesis about electrical relay circuits. Switches that could be open or closed. Current that either flowed or didn't. He read Boole and understood something nobody had connected before. An open switch is a zero. A closed switch is a one. A circuit with two switches in series only carries current when both are closed. That is AND. A circuit with two switches in parallel carries current when either is closed. That is OR. Shannon proved that every possible logical relationship Boole had described could be physically built using wire and switches. That single insight is the foundation of every computer ever made. After Shannon, chip designers stopped thinking about electricity and started thinking about logic. Every transistor on every processor running right now is implementing a Boolean operation. Every if-statement in every codebase is Boolean logic. Every database query using AND or OR. Every neural network threshold that fires or doesn't fire. All of it is running the algebra of a self-taught schoolteacher from Lincoln who died 160 years ago. The strangest part is what happened to Boole at the end. He was walking to class in November 1864 when he got caught in a rainstorm. He lectured for hours in wet clothes. He went home sick. His wife, Mary, believed in homeopathic medicine and thought the cure should mirror the cause. She wrapped him in wet sheets and poured cold water over him repeatedly. He died a few days later. He was 49. He never saw a transistor. He never saw a circuit. He never saw a single physical machine run a single one of his rules. His book is in the public domain. Free to download. Most engineers use the word Boolean dozens of times a week. Almost none of them know who they are saying. The man whose logic runs inside every phone, every server, and every AI model on Earth died soaking wet in a small Irish town, 83 years before anyone figured out what he had actually built.

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29 June Online 11:00–12:30 CET Free, but registration required (in English lang). Find out what it really takes to bring art & culture into a hospital ward? #CulturaEnVena will share their considerable experience doing just that. Link to register docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

Lo más curioso de los perros y los gatos no es que sean diferentes. Es que parecen venir de planetas distintos. El perro te mira y piensa: “Esta persona me da comida. Debe ser un dios.” El gato te mira y piensa: “Esta persona me da comida. Claramente yo soy el dios.” Y lo peor es que, después de unos meses… empiezas a sospechar que tiene razón.

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A photo from a new intensive care rooftop ward at King's College Hospital in south London! What a beautiful concept! The patient said she "forgot what it feels like to be outside". The outdoor ward has enough space for six patients (see more photos in the link below), who can be connected to power and oxygen supplies housed in a waterproof box next to each bed. "𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑠ℎ 𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙, 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑠𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠. 𝐻𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 - 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠. 𝐷𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑔'𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑔𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜'𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠' ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠, 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑠, 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦." Source: BBC bbc.com/news/articles/cm2p1p…

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Absolutely fantastic! 👏🏆🎨🏥🧒. Look @DrSusanNasif_ @mlalanda @TheBadDr

Really enjoyed this anecdote from the Irish Medical Organisation conference!

Muchos ven el uniforme limpio al empezar el turno, pero pocos conocen el peso de lo que cargamos al terminarlo. Ser enfermera no es solo administrar una medicación a tiempo o vigilar un monitor. Es ser el último muro de contención entre el miedo y la esperanza.

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Opinion | Why A.I. Will Never Replace Your Doctor Sharing my experience of why it still matters that we have "real life" doctors and nurses on duty. nytimes.com/2026/05/05/opini…