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Dec 3, 2023

Two grocery challenger brands become one.

“Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen & Market, are merging to become Outfox Hospitality.” I was living near a Foxtrot in Wicker Park, Chicago and really appreciated it. They luckily followed me to Austin and opened right near my house and the location is crushing it. It will be interesting…

Nov 26, 2023

4.5 billion years in 1 hour.

“We’ve scaled the complete timeline of our Earth’s life into our first animated movie! Every second shows about a million years of the planet’s evolution. Hop on a musical train ride and experience how long a billion years really is.” ~ learn more

Nov 26, 2023

Fiddlesticks.

“Fiddlestick is recorded from the fifteenth century, and Shakespeare used a proverb based on it in Henry IV: “the devil rides on a fiddle-stick”, meaning that a commotion has broken out…” ~ learn more

Nov 26, 2023

Chicago is most corrupt city 4 years straight.

“The report uses public corruption statistics published by the U.S. Department of Justice from 1976 through 2021. In those 45 years, Chicago’s elected officials and public servants weaseled their way to a record 1,824 corruption convictions, according to the report.” ~ learn more

Nov 26, 2023

Housing data 2010-2020.

“Austin had the fastest household growth, or growth in occupied housing units, of all large U.S. cities, as well as among select peer cities.” Inside: “In this story map, we focus on housing units in Austin, their growth between 2010 and 2020 and how this growth compares to…

Nov 26, 2023

Printed robots with bones, ligaments and tendons.

This is absolutely incredible. 3D printing keeps getting better. “For the first time, researchers have succeeded in printing a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and tendons made of different polymers using a new laser scanning technique.” ~ learn more

Nov 26, 2023

LA’s hard tech ecosystem.

Two venture capitalists from Upfront Ventures put together a list of 50 cool companies based in the Los Angeles area that are pushing the frontiers of hard tech. Of course SpaceX and Anduril are on the list, but so are others founded as recently as this year. ~ learn more

Nov 26, 2023

Byron Wien’s 20 life lessons.

The famed Wall Street investor died last month. “Here are some of the lessons I learned in my first 80 years, which I continue to practice as I enter my 90’s.” ~ learn more