“Montreal doesn’t just push snow to the curb with plows – instead, snow is picked up by a fleet of trucks and transported up to one of 28 snow dump sites across the city. Throughout a typical winter, roughly 300,000 […]
His firm, Thrive Capital, manages over $5 billion, up from $40 million when he started it. “Kushner’s firm won over top Silicon Valley CEOs, from OpenAI to Instagram, in record time. Insiders detail how he paved a path outside his […]
“Indeed, the greatest question facing the aviation industry today is: why does progress seem to be so difficult to achieve? Why have we seen regression on metrics like speed, altitude, and commercial flight times?” ~ learn more
I haven’t had the chance to try one of these, but a colleague did and liked it. “The combination of espresso and tonic water originated in Sweden in the early aughts, allegedly created by a barista at Koppi Roasters in […]
“The company hasn’t yet shown that its drug actually extends lifespan, but the FDA decision signals the agency’s confidence in Loyal’s approach, and the drug will soon be tested in a bigger trial.” ~ learn more
Take a worldview such as “people’s core qualities are fixed” and mix up the last word’s letters, like “iexfd”, and the reader will have a little ‘aha moment’ when they unscramble it, which also makes it more likely that they’ll […]
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“Even before the pandemic accelerated a massive shift to virtual care, more than a quarter of Americans were seeing nurses and physician assistants at their health care visits, according to research published in The BMJ. The study also found that […]
“The pulse was sent to the motor. As always, the result was immediate, but this time, alarmingly unfamiliar. The strip chart did not look like anything we had seen before. It did not even look like a broken motor. It […]
“The Al Capone Problem is another specific example of this broader trend: if you try to understand Capone’s imprisonment based only on the court ruling that put him away, you don’t understand Capone’s imprisonment.” ~ learn more