Carta’s doing some content marketing with their data (which is arguably pretty good). “Total venture capital raised by startups plunged 80% from Q1 2022 to Q1 2023. Venture deal count fell 45% over the same span. Overall, Q1 was the […]
There’s a very very well-fed turtle living in the Chicago River. This brings back memories of Chance the Snapper. ~ learn more
There’s an interesting tension between top-down control over our nuclear arsenal and decentralized ability to launch even if communication lines were wiped out. “Oh, and in case you actually did forget the code, it was handily written down on a […]
An incredible example of the food web in action. “When a whale dies and sinks to the ocean floor, it creates a new ecosystem that changes the local food web for up to a century afterwards. They only occur in […]
“[If] counterintelligence officers aren’t finding those spies, they have failed. … [W]hen they do catch them, the public perception is that they’ve failed again, by not detecting them for years on end. Spy-catchers are thus damned if they do and […]
This is a prompt that lets you create an AI tutor that’s customized to your depth of knowledge, learning style, and even tone. Want a tutor who engages you in debates? Cool. How about an encouraging tutor instead? Can do! ~ learn […]
The researchers learned that rather than clearing unusable proteins right away, ”blood’s stem cells actually squirrel away their misfolded waste and only recycle it when they need it.” And as the cells age, their ability to do this declines. Researcher […]
“A team of Harvard Medical School scientists say they’ve come up with a new drug cocktail of molecules that they say can successfully regenerate the hair cells in the inner ear that enable hearing — a potentially groundbreaking treatment for […]
Building on the published evidence above, Dr. Ruben Laukkonen proposes the hypothesis that this is a version of human hibernation. It’s a very interesting idea. ~ learn more
The full paper is paywalled (boo Elsevier) but enough is there to be intriguing. There are rare meditators who seem to enter a state without consciousness for up to 7 days. Unlike sleep, “they cannot be ‘woken up’ from the […]