“The ideal branch is in an upper middle-class neighborhood on a corner of Main Street and Main Street.” Thinking back to the first bank account I ever had, it was at the corner of the nearest major streets to my […]
An ode to ExRx.net. After reading this I checked it out, reading about the most common weight training mistakes. ~ learn more
Casey Rosengren describes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and how it helped him to approach the stress and uncertainty of entrepreneurship in a new way. “At a high-level, ACT (pronounced “act” not “A-C-T”) looks at how our thoughts influence our […]
Instead of admitting that a new kind of radar allowed British WW2 pilots to shoot down their German adversaries at night, “they invented a propaganda campaign that claimed their pilots had developed exceptional eyesight by eating “an excess of carrots.” […]
Scurvy is a horrible and dangerous disease that results from a vitamin C deficiency. Mostly, it afflicted sailors who ate only preserved food for months at sea. The cure was repeatedly discovered and lost over time. This article builds on […]
“There are two types of common discontinuities in AI. One is when performance jumps much more than expected – e.g. you double the amount of data you have but triple the performance of the output from that. The other is […]
“Vial is inventing new technology with the goal of reducing the cost of clinical trials by an order of magnitude. … For the first time, Vial is providing a glimpse into Act II: Battery Bio. Building on its substantial cost […]
“People imprisoned/convicted ever and respondents arrested last year are similarly concerned with crime as the general public and overwhelming majority of them say too little is been done to stop it.” ~ learn more
“As the historian David Courtwright notes in his book Forces of Habit, the past five centuries have been profoundly shaped by the rise of several drugs which have one big thing in common: they became global commodities during the early […]
“How a Montreal copywriter swindled victims out of $200 million by pretending to be a legendary psychic.” ~ learn more