Highly recommended. This is a TED talk + an impressive product demo + a strong Q&A. “After the talk, head of TED Chris Anderson joins Brockman to dig into the timeline of ChatGPT’s development and get Brockman’s take on the […]
Rising property values aren’t good for everyone, and gentrification has its downsides. There’s also the related trend of short-term rental businesses reducing long-term resident housing supply. This author is quite upset by the whole situation. He highlights many silly anecdotes […]
“The massive decline in Illinois’ population was a direct result of losing residents to virtually every other state. On net, Illinois lost people to 45 of the 49 other states in the nation.” ~ learn more
“Nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in New York City last year involved just 327 people, the police said. Collectively, they were arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said.” ~ learn more
That means during the period when both the US and New Zealand are both on DST, the cumulative time difference is an extra 2 hours. ~ learn more
There’s a construction project next to my home that’s currently a big hole in the ground. After some rain, it became a makeshift pond. Then a frog moved in. The frog made lots of loud noise all through the night. […]
Matt Levine explains in vivid detail the trap that is the US regulatory environment, and the sense of scary foreboding that other US crypto exchanges might be experiencing these days. ~ learn more (open in incognito if paywalled)
“In their study, the team fed mice a diet that restricted the intake of cysteine and methionine, two sulfur amino acids… Not only did they find that the diet made glioblastoma cells more likely to die from ferroptosis, but they […]
“New research into bite-protection has taken a readily available natural molecule, cellulose, and manipulated it to produce a product that saw an 80% reduction in mosquito feeds on human skin.” ~ learn more
Late last year they shuttered their d2c business. Similarly, Liquid Death no longer sells its canned water d2c, pointing customers to Amazon instead. It’s because after accounting for all costs, their margins were actually better in wholesale channels. ~ learn more