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fun facts
· Sep 2024
This was pretty good! "All of you here, without question, are the best of the best. Just don't lose your humor. It’s not an accessory. It's your Stanley Cup water bottle on the brutal, long hike of life," said Seinfeld. ~ learn more
on the blockchain
· Sep 2024
There’s been a spurt of recent news from the US regulators that legitimizes crypto markets. “Why is this happening? I see three main factors at play….” ~ learn more
big ideas
· Sep 2024
“In our work at the EU’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), we showed that in the case of many of the strategic clean energy technologies, the bloc is entirely dependent on single sources – most often China – for raw materials, and also for other segments of the value chain.” ~ learn more
thoughts of food
· Sep 2024
“The world’s biggest food company said it developed the new products with more protein, iron and calcium for people taking the wildly popular appetite-suppressing drugs, called GLP-1 agonists.” ~ learn more
under the microscope
· Sep 2024
If anyone who understands material science well would like to tutor me a bit, I would be grateful! “Our work represents an order-of-magnitude expansion in stable materials known to humanity. Stable discoveries that are on the final convex hull will be made available to screen for technological applications, as we demonstrate for layered materials and solid-electrolyte candidates. Of the stable structures, 736 have already been independently experimentally realized.” ~ learn…
under the microscope
· Sep 2024
“Wireless devices use different filters for different frequencies, with the effect that covering all frequencies or bands requires large numbers of filters that take up substantial space. (The typical smartphone includes upwards of 100 filters, to ensure that signals from different bands don't interfere with one another.)” ~ learn more
under the microscope
· Sep 2024
“When examining the cognitive data, the team found two types of brain aging: slower-than-accepted and accelerated. When they combined the cognitive data with the nutritional measurements, they found a certain nutritional profile clearly linked to those with slower brain aging.” ~ learn more
to your health
· Sep 2024
“Dexcom plans to first sell Stelo on a website through individual purchases or a cash-pay subscription model. Sayer said the company started with this avenue instead of a pharmacy to provide more control at launch and allow Dexcom to better track utilization patterns.” ~ learn more
better doing
· Sep 2024
A message for parents. “It seems like it’s really important to you. That the door not be slammed. That the chores be done a certain way. That everything be put away immediately. That feet go on the ground, not the furniture. But the truth is, you don’t actually care about the things themselves. You don’t.” ~ learn more
better doing
· Sep 2024
Andrew Chen wrote a post called “Growth Hacker is the VP of Marketing” a decade ago, predicting a sea change in the skills for and approach to successful marketing. For a while, he seemed to be right. “I originally had hoped to find a new scientific process to finding product/market fit but in the end mostly found new tools/processes that mostly helped big products get even bigger.” ~ learn more