teaching the kids

Sit with not-knowing.

Sit with not-knowing. “The faster [the students] go, the fewer the opportunities for hesitation, judgment, or uncertainty.” Gert Biesta argues schools should protect that slow, resistant space, especially now that AI can rush students to a polished answer before they […]

under the microscope

130% solar cells, kind of.

130% solar cells, kind of. “The result is a measurable quantum yield of around 130%.” Not exactly 130% energy efficiency as the article title implies, it is 1.3 charge carriers harvested per photon, which is still pretty cool.. ~ learn […]

under the microscope

Sleep regularity beats sleep duration.

Sleep regularity beats sleep duration. “Sleep regularity was a stronger predictor of all-cause mortality than sleep duration.” They computed a Sleep Regularity Index from more than 10 million hours of wrist accelerometer data in 60,977 UK Biobank participants, and the […]

retail therapy

The $7 breaking point.

The $7 breaking point. “Every consumer has their limit as to how much they will pay for a given item, and for Dorito’s customers, that limit is apparently $7 a bag.” Frito-Lay tried promos and smaller bags instead of cutting […]

to your health

Mine Reddit for drug side effects.

Mine Reddit for drug side effects. “there are zero long term studies on BPC-157 use.” So he processed 37k comments from peptide subreddits and pulled “over 2400 AE reports” to map what people say happens, including dechallenge and rechallenge cases. […]

to your health

A cancer vaccine in one day.

A cancer vaccine in one day. “With AI, the company said the procedure could be completed in a day.” Beijing-based Likang Life Sciences is building what it says is China’s first production line for AI-assisted personalized tumor vaccines, designed to […]

better doing

Mental effort is the real divide.

Mental effort is the real divide. “What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.” The early story of AI at work is not leisure, it is intensity: one study found that after […]