fun facts
Why the moon landing footage couldn’t have been faked.
“The filmmaker takes a look at the video technology of the late 1960’s, showing alleged fraud was simply not possible.” ~ learn more
fun facts
A look into MrBeast’s media empire.
“Jimmy Donaldson — aka MrBeast — has established an online multi-platform empire with nearly 200 million followers, planted ~25 million trees, given millions of dollars away, and even helped 1,000 blind people see again. He’s also 24 years old.” ~ learn more
fun facts
So you want to launch a hedge fund?
Among other challenges, the classic 2-and-20 fee structure is now “1.35-and-16”. ~ learn more
profiles of people
Big Shot, a podcast celebrating Jewish entrepreneurs.
Brought to you by Harley Finkelstein (President of Shopify) and David Segal (Founder of David’s Tea). Their first interview is with Charles Bronfman who brought baseball to Canada and founded the nonprofit Birthright. ~ learn more
big ideas
We must be willing to consider what might at first seem absurd and unworkable.
“A recent paper proposes the deployment of volcanic geothermal energy from the Yellowstone Caldera Supervolcano, using a completely new copper-based engineering approach.” This qualifies as a big idea. An accordingly some commenters handily dismiss it. ~ learn more
thoughts of food
Not clickbait: Could ice cream possibly be good for you?
I almost didn’t read this because the title is so outlandish, but I’m glad I did. There’s some delightful research over the years finding benefits from ice cream, disowned by the researchers themselves. There’s a subtext here that I think […]
under the microscope
How do birds migrate such long distances?
With the aid of proteins called cryptochromes that work as blue-light-sensitive photoreceptors. It gets more complicated from there. “In a way, it appears that bird’s eyes can “see” magnetic fields, giving a completely new meaning to the phrase “from a […]
under the microscope
The psychedelic DMT causes the brain to become hyperconnected.
“Researchers gave 20 healthy subjects potent, intravenous doses of the psychedelic DMT and observed their brains with both functional MRI and electroencephalography. They witnessed the brain’s business-like hierarchical organization collapse, replaced with a state of global hyperconnectivity. Brain entropy, defined […]
under the microscope
Peanut and other allergies may be treatable.
The liver is regularly bombarded with foreign substances, and is home to antigen-presenting cells that train the immune system to tolerate foreign proteins rather than attacking them. Delivering carefully selected protein fragments to the liver helps put a damper on […]
to your health
GPT is not a doctor.
This is the bear case, of course, and I think the optimists aren’t completely out on a limb. “STAT News reports that the research, while not yet fully released and still pending peer review, found that nearly 60 percent of […]