Don’t let the big words scare you off. This is an insightful analysis of the FDA’s recent approval of a new Alzheimers drug from Scott Alexander. Conclusion: unbundle the FDA! | learn more
“As an instructor in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), I spent four years teaching meditation as a full-time job.” Then one day, Dan Lawton discovered firsthand the rarely-discussed evidence of meditation’s risk, “including involuntary convulsions, panic, anxiety, dissociation and perceptual hypersensitivity—a […]
From Sean Harper, CEO and co-founder at Kin Insurance. “At my company, we have a bias toward action. We make it clear to employees at every level that the person closest to any problem should solve it. Moreover, we make […]
“How once upon a time the government wanted to put a backdoor in your phone.” | learn more
“Nvidia scanned its CEO, Jensen Huang, and trained an AI to mimic his gestures, creating a virtual replica of Huang, which the company used as part of its April keynote. In a blog post, Nvidia revealed that Huang did not […]
“Chicago is known for its incredible architecture — but not every building is a stunner. A tour guide is showing off the city’s most reviled buildings in a new tour.” | learn more
“Rather than dispersing particulates as done in traditional cloud seeding, the Emirati Weather Center is using drones to ‘zap’ the air into submission. These drones are designed to target certain clouds and use electrical discharges via concentrated lasers to forcibly […]
“As Nicktoons’ 30th anniversary approaches, it’s time to celebrate the heroes, villains, sponges and starfish, and cats and dogs who redefined children’s programming in the 1990s and beyond.” | learn more
The ‘London’ hard fork happened this week and a transaction on the blockchain no longer costs as much as an international wire transfer. Let’s hope this lasts! | learn more