For years, this company was “ahead” of Factor in the healthy prepared food subscription business. Nestle acquired them for $950 million in 2020. Now they have shut down the business. Meanwhile, Factor is still delivering healthy eats weekly! ~ learn more
“After calling multiple experts for corroboration of the reasons for Dr. Thompson’s treatment protocol, he put out job postings for a farm manager everywhere he could. He used it as a pretense to hold candid interviews with farmers across the […]
“The authors reasoned that if a study was highly disruptive, subsequent research would be less likely to cite the study’s references, and instead would cite the study itself. Using the citation data from 45 million manuscripts and 3.9 million patents, […]
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Showing just how out of touch I am with tech bro culture, I recently bought another pair. “Renowned as ‘the world’s most comfortable sneakers,’ Allbirds once dominated Silicon Valley style. So why are their original fans shunning them and turning […]
In October 2022, Wired took a look at the most popular mental health chatbots on the market and the research backing them. “[A] 2020 review that pooled all the data on mental health chatbots available at the time concluded that, […]
This article is from 2015: “The absence of a comprehensive set of well-accepted measures capable of demonstrating the value of behavioral health treatment makes building a case for devoting resources to treatment more difficult.” ~ learn more
I shared a bit about this endeavor late last year. Now Ashlee Vance writes more about him for Bloomberg: “How to Be 18 Years Old Again for Only $2 Million a Year. Middle-aged tech centimillionaire Bryan Johnson and his team of […]
“Last January, Scott Alexander — along with amateur statisticians Sam Marks and Eric Neyman — solicited predictions from 508 people…” ~ learn more
There’s something both surprising and pleasant about a 20-something year old sharing her wisdom about life. “I’ve written about how there are things you can only learn over time, and not by any brute force. This realization continues to unlock […]