MIT media lab does cool stuff.
“For more than 30 years, MIT has been recruiting people with crazy ideas to work in their Media Lab, where life-changing inventions are created. 60 Minutes got a peek at what they’re working on now.” | learn more
“For more than 30 years, MIT has been recruiting people with crazy ideas to work in their Media Lab, where life-changing inventions are created. 60 Minutes got a peek at what they’re working on now.” | learn more
“Just three monthly doses of a nasal vaccine protected the mice from allergic reactions upon exposure to peanut, according to research from the Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center at the University of Michigan.” | learn more
“Every person in a team overestimates his or her contributions to the team. The bigger the team, the greater the overestimation…” | learn more
CEO Ryan Selkis (aka TwoBitIdiot) presented from these slides this week to explain what Messari is up to. “The token-curated registry is a new application for incentivizing the creation and maintenance of high quality decentralized lists.” | learn more
This is really clever! |learn more
The Russian government asked for the encryption keys to be able to read users’ private messages. Telegram replied with a hard no. So, the Russians blocked all of their IP addresses. Telegram started hosting on Amazon and Google. Then Russia […]
CB Insights analyzed over 100 failure post-mortems to identify the top reasons startups fail. | learn more
Sam Korus from ARK Invest has a very neat analysis of the raw data, including fun charts! |learn more
“Keeping the river clean is no easy task, particularly during the summer months when the river is bustling. We spend a morning with one of Chicago’s trash-scooping river skimmers.” | learn more
We Chicagoans love to eat and drink outdoors. Thanks to the Chicago Tribune for making a list of the newest places to do so this summer. | learn more