Weekly NishIsHere! – Issue #78

♣ Thought of the Week

“it’s actually scary how your whole life depends on how much risk you take from the ages of 20-35”

— Seth on X (@Notbullnorbear)

◘ The 20 to 35 age range is life’s most crucial period, where major decisions profoundly determine one’s future trajectory. Choices regarding career, finance, and relationships during these years have a disproportionate, “scary” impact, often made with limited experience.

This phase is marked by peak energy for risk-taking, laying foundational stability, and making serious, hard-to-reverse commitments (marriage, debt, specialization). The cumulative effect of these choices dictates wealth, social standing, and well-being by middle age; mistakes or missed chances can lead to lasting disadvantage.

If you are in this age or passed it, how much risk did you take?

♣ Tech

◘ See this picture? This is a woolly mammoth. Some companies are trying to resurrect this.

A company named Colossal Biosciences is trying to resurrect them, because there is big business to be made here.

As part of their ambitious goal to bring back the woolly mammoth by 2028, Colossal Biosciences has introduced the “Colossal Woolly Mouse.” By pinpointing gene families linked to mammoth woolliness, their team used advanced multiplexed genome engineering to target seven genes, creating mice with some of the mammoth’s core phenotypes. Those traits include mammoth-like coat color, texture, and thickness, as well as altered lipid metabolism. Suffice to say, the results are very, very fluffy.

♣ Creator Economy

◘ Nanoscapes | Butterfly Wings at 50,000x

Nanoscapes: Checking Out the Invisible World

The Nanoscapes project is pretty cool; it takes the stuff you can’t normally see on butterfly wings and turns it into amazing, almost alien-looking pictures. They use light and electron microscopes to zoom in super close—up to 50,000 times! This lets us see all the wild details of the wings’ surface. Plus, it gives us a ton of info about how they get their colors (structural coloration), which is actually something we still don’t know much about.

Watch the related film too.

♣ Pop Culture

◘ The Magic Behind Sports Movies

I’ve always been super interested in how sports movies get made. The sheer amount of work and production that goes into bringing those stories to life on screen is honestly mind-blowing. This video gives you a fantastic peek behind the curtain.

♣ Business

◘ If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?

So, what’s the real deal with intelligence and financial success? Academic research on the link between money and smarts has some pretty unexpected results. In this video, we’re diving into why being highly intelligent isn’t the only ticket to financial success, and we’ll look at solid steps you can take to improve your own financial future.

My thought from this: ‘Luck’ is when hard work and opportunity meet.

♣ Photo of the Week

◘ Fire Magic, Tiril Schjerven, Digital 2D, 2025

♣ Quote of the Week

◘ It’s wild how we burn so much emotional energy on silly stuff, like freaking out over a slow driver or a late email; instead of actually doing something about the fact that we’re literally wasting our limited time on Earth.

We’ll totally lose it over five minutes stuck in traffic, but we just shrug off years lost to laziness, pointless routines, or scrolling mindlessly. This backward focus is super confusing. Maybe getting mad at the small things is just a way to avoid the bigger problem: that we might be failing at life. It’s way easier to shout at a broken coffee machine than to confront a life without real purpose. We seem to prefer the loud, surface drama over the quiet, real tragedy.

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