Four Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon

New vocab word: "deal friends". Realizing I don't have those kind of friends. I've learned how to figure out who just wants things from me, then I just stop engaging on that basis, and they drift off in search of others to feed on. [theatlantic.com]

"FDA approves first test of CRISPR to correct genetic defect causing sickle cell disease". CRISPR & mRNA vaccines are going to change a lot of things in the next 10 years. [news.berkeley.edu]

'Welcome 2 America' is a 2010 Prince album that will be released for the first time in July. [nytimes.com]

Terrifying short science fiction story. "What great message to another civilization can you possibly send with only 248 bits of information?" [reddit.com]

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