Just remember that humans are still just learning the basics.
“Researchers at MIT have discovered a new phenomenon: that light can cause evaporation of water from its surface without the need for heat.” ~ learn more
“Researchers at MIT have discovered a new phenomenon: that light can cause evaporation of water from its surface without the need for heat.” ~ learn more
This matters because it demonstrates an effective way to smooth out intermittent solar and wind energy. “A landmark event occurred in the US on Tuesday night when battery storage become for the first time the largest source of supply in the California grid, which delivers electricity to the world’s fifth biggest economy and is one of the world’s biggest grids.” ~ learn more
This Forbes article takes an aggressive stance on the value of many blockchains. “With bitcoin soaring once again, blockchains are suddenly much more valuable. More than 50 of them are now worth over $1 billion—despite many having few users.” Yet, it’s possible for this article’s message to be generally correct and specifically wrong if any of these blockchains manage to innovate along a relevant dimension. But certainly much of crypto…
“Wherever you come down, Dan Loeb is worthy of study. Over the past 26 years, he has turned $3.3 million in start-up capital into a hedge fund with more than $20 billion. He personally pioneered a new era of activist investing. He has kept pace with the market’s rate of change, learning and growing in order to succeed even as the landscape has shifted repeatedly under his feet—yielding remarkable consistency.”…
“Although he sometimes pretended to be a hard-core reductionist, AI visionary Marvin Minsky was actually a scientific romantic, for whom the quest for knowledge mattered more than the knowledge itself.” ~ learn more
A brief guide to dorking, the use of search engines to find very specific data. ~ learn more
Arizona has a point of pride here! “The majority of Yuma wheat is exported to Italy because of Yuma’s climate and the variety we have to offer.” ~ learn more
“Today, the F-word is enjoying a renaissance the likes of which it hasn’t seen since, well, the Renaissance.” ~ learn more
The Chicago-based, VC-backed local grocery market and cafe that I have been a big fan of for several years suddenly closed the doors on all their stores this week. I lived very near to one in Wicker Park, and when I moved to Austin they opened another a couple blocks from me. It had quickly become a neighborhood hotspot. ~ learn more
The incredible hydraulic dancing robot, the one that we’ve grown to love and fear, is retired. It’s makers posted a goodbye bloopers reel. Boston Dynamics would like to introduce us to the new all-electric Atlas by way of an kinda terrifying video. ~ learn more