“For the second half of the 19th century, the Western world pretty much ran on a game-changing, nation-making, super-powerful substance—bird poop. At first glance (or, fine, maybe second), guano is an ideal fertilizer. Made almost entirely of nitrogen, phosphate and […]
From Mitchell Hashimoto, the founder of HashiCorp ($HCP). “I also figured a local branch of a global bank is just a fungible tentacle of the giant banking machine, so also… who cares.” ~ learn more
“When someone is born, chemical parts once scattered across the world converge to form a human. Days, years, and decades before, those atoms were always somewhere in the world. I recently got curious about this: where do people come from? […]
Japanese workplace culture is the opposite of America’s at-will employment. “Japanese companies are barred both by societal and legal constraints that make it very difficult to fire employees.” So they invented “the oidashibeya, literally the banishment room or the expulsion room.” ~ learn […]
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“Scientists are on their way to finding out for sure. For the first time, researchers have purposively developed psychedelic drugs that appear to bring about neuroplastic effects without producing a trip. These drugs stimulate the same serotonin receptor as traditional […]
“Montreal doesn’t just push snow to the curb with plows – instead, snow is picked up by a fleet of trucks and transported up to one of 28 snow dump sites across the city. Throughout a typical winter, roughly 300,000 […]
If they choose F59 I’ll probably avoid the state forever. ~ learn more
“Qatari officials compare their role to that held by Swiss diplomats. For decades, the Swiss have been involved in international hostage negotiations, but in today’s geopolitical landscape, the Qataris are in a more useful position.” ~ learn more
This is really hard, or I’m just really bad at it. “Name countries to travel from the Start Country to the End Country. Try to get there in the fewest guesses!” A new puzzle is released daily at midnight. There […]