Lattice is a platform for managing employees. Today, they “became the first company to give digital workers official employee records in Lattice. This marks a huge moment in the evolution of A1 technology and of the workplace.” This is a stunt, I assume, yet an entertaining one! ~ learn more
A new startup called Noble believes they do. The tool uses a company’s customer database to help prospects get real product feedback from users who they already know. ~ learn more
“They ultimately developed a process that involves taking carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water, heating them up, and oxidizing them to trigger the separation of fatty acids and then the formulation of fat. The result is real fat molecules like the ones we get from milk, cheese, beef, and vegetable oils.” ~ learn more
“Recently a friend and I thew a little party, and wanted to layer on a format or gimmick that would get help people mix and mingle between groups more easily.” ~ learn more
“When you first become a parent, your whole life gets turned upside down. As you scramble to manage and handle all the things now on your plate, you sometimes say to yourself: When they’re a little older, this will calm down. As soon as we get through [insert phase], everything will go back to normal.” ~ learn more
“If you look to scientific academies for answers about how much you should sleep, you are assuming you are the average person, in spite of all evidence to the contrary. People who say “everyone ought to get 8 hours of sleep” are assuming that everyone is the average person, in spite of the fact that that is obviously not true.” ~ learn more
Senator Bernie Sanders published an “interim report” this Prime Day, based on Amazon warehouse injury data from the week of Prime Day 2019. The report claims the company experienced 45 injuries per 100 workers. That’s a shockingly high rate, right? I clicked through to the actual report to learn more about the types of injuries. That never made it into the report, possibly because it doesn’t bolster the senator’s argument.…
“Within the lawsuit, Nike lawyers explicitly state that this case is not concerning the one-of-one customisations, but rather Ciambrone's 'attempts to build an entire multifaceted retail empire through their unauthorized use of Nike’s trademark rights and the associated goodwill that Nike spent decades accruing.’” ~ learn more
“In a new study from the lab of Prof. Cathryn Nagler in the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, researchers found that treatment with a concoction of A. caccae and the prebiotic lactulose increased butyrate levels in the intestinal tracts of mice, stifling allergic responses to cow’s milk.” ~ learn more
“After 20 weeks, what we found for the first time in a randomized controlled trial is that an intensive lifestyle intervention, without drugs, significantly improved cognition and function in many patients who had mild cognitive impairment or early-stage AD.” … “Not every patient in our study got better, but our primary outcome was the same measures of cognition and function that are used in FDA drug trials.” ~ learn more