“The report determined children have lower IQs after being exposed to high levels of fluoride after reviewing epidemiology studies in Canada, China, India, Iran, Pakistan and Mexico.” ~ learn more
“This is terrifying. As Ben Franklin noted, the bigger your family, the broader the mark you are for sorrow. He’s not wrong. We’ve got multiple hearts running out around outside our body, and those kids just aren’t the safest or the smartest.” ~ learn more
“Let’s say you’re raising a $2 million seed round. At first glance, talking to a guy who writes $5,000 checks seems like a waste of time. I’d need about a billion of those to fill my round, right? But this ignores how fundraising actually works. Networks are everything, and the small investors help you penetrate that network.” ~ learn more
LetsGetChecked is buying Truepill for $525 million, mostly stock. “Both companies are burning tons of cash, according to internal financial documents, so the goal is to create a stronger business by closing the patient data loop.” ~ learn more
“Every day, Waymo’s driverless autonomous vehicles gather in the parking lot on 2nd and Harrison streets to park between rides and recharge. Periodically, the high-tech vehicles start honking at each other.” I just saw a guy in Austin getting out of one of these cars, and he said they’ll be launching soon. I’m excited to try! I was so close to trying Cruise last year, but they shut down the…
The photo editing especially impresses me. One example is that you can take a photo of a group of your friends, then swap positions and have a friend capture you into the same photo. ~ learn more
This is their GenAI assistant for software development. “The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 plummeted from what’s typically 50 developer-days to just a few hours. We estimate this has saved us the equivalent of 4,500 developer-years of work (yes, that number is crazy but, real).” ~ learn more
“Find out more about the key component of your corrugated packaging – and how it influences everything from packaging costs to performance.” ~ learn more
“What folks are likely seeing are colonies of bryozoans, says DNR aquatic invertebrate biologist Gary Montz. These microscopic animals, sometimes referred to as moss animals, make jellylike tubes and attach themselves to sticks, rocks, and other submerged objects. They connect their tubes together into colonies that can be as big as a volleyball. The animals themselves live in the tubes and extend their tentacles out to capture even smaller microscopic…
It’s because they’re not just bottles, they are also pressure vessels. I tried to put our old SodaStream back into service this week only to discover that the bottles expired almost a decade ago and no longer work right. ~ learn more