“It was Christmas Eve 2007, and one of the city’s most ambitious, potentially lucrative heists was about to unfold. It was like something out of “Ocean’s Eleven” one detective recalled — except neither the cops nor robbers won. And it’s all […]
Here’s another one I had to look up after a conversation this week. We were reminiscing about the music player that started the MP3 movement. | learn more
I heard this in a podcast and just had to look it up. The Monday after we “spring forward” and lose an hour has a 25% higher incidence of heart attacks than other Mondays throughout the year. | learn more
In 1979, scientists in the US signed on to an international agreement that limits embryo research to 14 days. At the time, this was an arbitrary length of time that was mostly moot because embryos couldn’t survive that long in […]
“Missouri has become the first US state to pass a bill defining what products can and can’t be classified as ‘meat.’ The legislation prohibits plant-based products from using the term and also removes the possibility of lab-grown meat hitting the […]
CB Insights created this great chart showing just how concentrated the CPG industry is. |learn more
“The mechanism that limits a cell’s lifespan can be slowed down, but that can turn them cancerous, as they divide unchecked. Now, scientists at EPFL have found a way to manipulate that mechanism to effectively turn off cancer’s immortality, letting […]
While we know that microbes are critical to many functions of life, we’ve still only begun to scratch the surface of understanding. “The American Gut Project – a global, crowdsourced citizen science effort – has published the first results from […]
“Inertia is the force that holds the universe together. Literally. Without it, things would fall apart. It’s also what keeps us locked in destructive habits, and resistant to change.” | learn more
“Launched by Amazon in early 2017, ‘Spark’ is an app-within-an-app that is intended to promote product discovery and social sharing within Amazon’s ecosystem. Never heard of it? You’re not alone.” | learn more