fun facts
A short sampler of hip-hop history and culture.
Google celebrates the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop. ~ learn more
big ideas
The US will be first country to pay for direct carbon capture.
“The effort will be managed by the Department of Energy and will initially have a budget in the tens of millions…” ~ learn more
big ideas
What’s next for the moon?
“Robots—and then humans—are going back to the lunar surface. Here’s what they’ll be doing.” ~ learn more
Uncategorized
Estimating individual guidance counselors’ effects on educational attainment.
“Counselors vary substantially in their effectiveness at increasing high school graduation and college attendance, selectivity, and persistence. Counselor effects on educational attainment are similar in magnitude to teacher effects, but they flow through improved information and assistance more than cognitive […]
under the microscope
New material made of DNA and glass is lighter and stronger than steel.
“For the given density, our material is the strongest known,” Seok-Woo Lee, a materials scientist at the University of Connecticut and coauthor of a resulting study published in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, said in a statement.” ~ learn more
under the microscope
Can neural stimulation zap addiction?
“This type of brain-zapping therapy, known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), has shown encouraging results in clinical trials involving chronic users of cocaine, alcohol, heroin, methamphetamine, and cannabis. Regulators in the United States, Canada, the European Union, and Israel have […]
retail therapy
Siting bank branches.
“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 […]
to your health
The internet’s richest fitness resource is a site from 1999.
An ode to ExRx.net. After reading this I checked it out, reading about the most common weight training mistakes. ~ learn more
better doing
How to do hard things.
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 […]
better doing
The carrot problem.
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.” […]