“Pinterest Inc. is boosting its user and ad-revenue numbers at a much faster pace than most of its social-media peers—and it has artificial intelligence to thank for it.” | learn more
“Now, you probably think of Vimeo as a smaller competitor to YouTube — the company’s been around for 16 years, and that’s what it was for most of that time. But when Anjali took over as CEO, she stopped all […]
Before the title leaves you with the impression that all is now well with the state’s finances, there’s still the pesky matter of pensions. “The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously shot down a legal challenge to bonds issued by the […]
Of dollars and data takes up the question of my generation’s wealth. “Using the same Federal Reserve data cited in the articles above, we can see that Millennials have roughly the same inflation-adjusted financial assets per capita as prior generations […]
“[T]ypically in reference to Jewish cuisine in New York City, particularly Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, [an Appetizing store] is a store that sells “food that generally goes with bagels.” | learn more
“Because of their height, giraffes require scarily high blood pressures — yet they escape the massive health problems that plague people with hypertension. Can clinicians learn from these animals?” | learn more
Tyler Cowen fires off a wide array of questions about the company and the crypto economy. He starts off by asking how he prevents Coinbase from being run by its lawyers. | learn more
“Sam is a former international ETF trader at the prop shop Jane Street Capital. Now he’s building a crypto empire with his hedge fund Alameda Research as well as his own exchange called FTX. He talks us through his path […]
“Flavobacteria turn out to have a penchant for structural coloration: they can assemble into 2D photonic crystals, which are periodic assemblages that reflect light only at certain angles.” | learn more
“It is likely that Kahneman’s book [Thinking Fast and Slow], or at least some of his chapters, would be very different from the actual book, if it had been written just a few years later. However, in 2011 most psychologists […]