I hadn’t heard of this until I moved to Texas. Keeping plants (and grass) alive down here can be hard, so often landscaping is designed to require no water. When I finally saw the word ‘xeriscape’ written out, I thought […]
“With expansive population growth, new businesses steadily flowing in, celebrities snapping up local property and constant new development, Austin is making its way through some growing pains. Here are some of the parts of the city longtime Austinites gripe about […]
“Over the weekend, ESPN broadcast a replay of a recent esports event that saw the world’s most advanced Microsoft Excel users go head-to-head in a knockout tournament.” I watched a bit of this and frankly was a little lost because […]
“We reviewed the published literature and acquired unpublished datasets to systematically quantify bird–building collision mortality and species-specific vulnerability. Based on 23 studies, we estimate that between 365 and 988 million birds (median = 599 million) are killed annually by building […]
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A year after Google’s DeepMind team released AlphaFold, an AI system that can determine the shape of any protein from its sequence, comes this: “[W]e’re now releasing predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science, which will expand […]
Compared to the 1980s, Americans are eating more fresh fruit and fresh veggies and many products (including cars) are more affordable. “I went through all 1,566 pages of the 1980 Sears catalog to find items I could easily compare with […]
There isn’t any solid research about whether fasting helps the human body fight an infection. But there was a study published Cell in 2016 that found mice fared better against bacteria while fasted, and against viruses while fed — specifically with glucose. | learn […]
The NYT reports on this study: “Dr. Evershed and his colleagues found that Europeans were consuming milk without lactase for thousands of years, despite the misery from gas and cramping it might have caused.” | learn more (no paywall on this link)
The pilot is far from concluded, but that doesn’t stop the feel-good stories from coming out. “The six-month pilot commits 3,300 workers across 70 companies to work 80% of their usual week in exchange for promising to maintain 100% of […]