fun facts
Pipe dream.
My daughter was playing a that reminded me of the old Pipe Dream. It turn out you can play online now! ~ learn more
fun facts
Russian-speaking Koryoins are moving back to their ancestral homeland.
“Amid a plummeting birth rate and associated labour shortages, South Korea is touting the settlement of Koryoins and other ethnic Koreans as a possible solution to the nation’s population crisis.” ~ learn more
fun facts
The Boss is the biggest bear in the Banff area.
This infamous grizzly weighs 650 lbs, has survived being hit by a train, and has even eaten a black bear that he killed. ~ learn more
fun facts
Can you tune a fish?
This impressive youtube creator was determined to finds out. Yes, it turns out, you can tune a fish. If you’re into engineering you might get a kick out of this. ~ learn more
better doing
Ignoring the wisdom of crowds.
“The experiment was made famous in 1987 by Jack Treynor. In his case it was 850 jelly beans and 56 students. The group average was only 2.5% off the correct number; only one student guessed better. The study has been […]
on the blockchain
SEC’s next target: OpenSea.
If NFTs are securities, then maybe OpenSea is an unregistered securities exchange. “Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea received a notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it intends to pursue an enforcement action, the company disclosed on […]
big ideas
It’s embarrassing to be a stay-at-home mom.
“Fertility is collapsing worldwide. We lack a coherent theory for why this is happening.” … “I propose that there is, in fact, an under-appreciated fundamental cause of these trends, which manifests in the form of different proximate causes (real and […]
thoughts of food
Food deserts are not real?
A point of view certain to be controversial in some circles. “These sorts of findings are commonplace in the empirical food desert literature: objectively increasing availability and access to food doesn’t seem to do much to what people choose to […]
under the microscope
Superhuman performance on a variety of different scientific literature search tasks.
“One approach to that problem is to identify contradictions between published scientific papers, which can point the way to new discoveries. In our paper, we describe how ContraCrow, an agent built on top of PaperQA2, can evaluate every claim in […]
under the microscope
Immune cell injection significantly boosts healing of bone, muscle & skin.
“Injecting regulatory T cells or Tregs, which control the body’s immune responses, directly into damaged bone, muscle and skin significantly boosts healing, according to new research. The door is now open to developing a universal cell-based method of enhancing healing […]