“Success is no longer about individual talent, knowledge or skill. Success is about freeing ourselves from the blind spots that beset us all, and pooling our collective intelligence.” ~ learn more
Thanks to this publication’s EU focus, this article is not about all the same folks who regularly make it into my news feed. ~ learn more
“Mercedes/Daimler plans to start manufacturing this truck in 2024, and it uses lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.” The last line of this article felt like wisdom: “Refined lithium may be in short supply today, but the cure for high prices […]
Plastic is ubiquitous but also somewhat complicated. Toss ‘bio’ into the mix and there’s some explanation required. “Bioplastic can mean that a material is biobased. Bioplastic can also mean that a material is biodegradable.” This short article can help you get it all straight. ~ learn […]
I have been encountering this term more often recently. After a writer whose work I enjoy described herself in this way, I decided to look it up. ~ learn more
“Predicting gender from fundus [the part of the eyeball opposite the pupil] photos, previously inconceivable to those who spent their careers looking at retinas, also withstood external validation on an independent dataset of patients with different baseline demographics.” ~ learn more
Dairy farms are now partnering with companies to turn their cow manure into “renewable natural gas (RNG)”. Possibly the most dystopian line in this article: “Taken to an extreme, some worry dairy farms could end up turning into feces farms […]
This NYT reporter spent 24 non-consecutive hours in Facebook’s metaverse as research for this story. “My goal was to visit at every hour of the day and night, all 24 of them at least once, to learn the ebbs and […]
An interview with sci-fi author Andy Weir, of The Martian fame. ~ learn more
Here’s a badass entrepreneurial story if I’ve ever heard one. Her daughter was dying and she started doing research. “Eventually she read about a drug that could lower arterial pressure but had been mothballed by the drug giant Glaxo. She […]