“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
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“The reason that supply chain issues were so bad is that leveraged organizations needed to figure out how to extract every penny from their cash flow, and having less inventory on hand seemed like a smart way to eke out […]
I read this opinion about a week ago and I think it holds up nicely, at least in the first phase of the machine takeover. “AI will allow us to cover the 1,000 most likely edge cases in the first […]
AI-enhanced replies change the game. People rate these messages higher, and the conversation partners as “closer and more cooperative.” But that breaks down as soon as people suspect an algorithm was invovled in the response. So AI helps, unless you […]
Risk is all around us. Indie hacker Ryan Kulp: “advising what “not” to do, however, is still useful. so in this post i’m sharing a few tech entrepreneur strategies to avoid, accompanied by mitigation tactics in case you’re already knee-deep […]