There are some real cowboys out there. “In livestock trading, the Texas hedge typically refers derisively to Texan cattle ranchers who might buy cattle futures contracts while already owning cattle, thereby doubling their risk exposure.” ~ learn more
Premium stuff! “Regardless of his knowledge, Adam, like every angler knows that sometimes you just don’t catch anything. After getting “skunked” while out for halibut a few times, he turned to an unlikely source for advice, ChatGPT. Adam had used […]
“Enter dark energy. It’s one of the most debated and intriguing missing puzzle pieces of modern physics—a mysterious form of energy believed to uniformly permeate all of space. In the current most accepted model of modern cosmology, dark energy is […]
An author whose point of view on history I admire also has a point of view on the future. “We’re at the precipice, and we’re about to jump off the cliff of AI superintelligence, whether we want to or not. […]
I rarely hear scientists expressing confidence like this: “And while the BCL6 discovery came through a study on mice, researchers are confident it will translate to human physiology.” ~ learn more
This is a bit of a dense writing flush with scientific names and terms, but its short. There’s growing evidence that a gut microbe has a causal role in major depressive disorder. ~ learn more
“The business school version of why DoorDash won is that they had the right strategy. They launched in the right markets, acquired the right restaurants, and designed the marketplace the right way. The Silicon Valley hustle culture version is that […]
“Then a lot of you asked “what actually counts as a ‘hospital’”? And after a brief ayahuasca trip, we started asking ourselves the same question (just me, Ben’s clean). So today we want to actually explain organizationally what hospitals actually […]
The NYT’s take on longevity-focused medical providers is … critical. Here’s an excerpt I dislike: “But experts worry that these clinics are capitalizing on people’s fears of aging and death without offering many tangible benefits — because almost none of […]
So says ZDNet Senior Contributing Editor Ed Bott. “At the start of the New Year, with no warning, Microsoft gives its flagship productivity app a name change and a huge price increase. Why would the company make this mess? I […]