“These institutions have spent too much time and money building their brands and not enough educating their students.” This opinion piece published in the WSJ makes some suggestions. | learn more
“Phil’s project focuses on the root microbiome of hydroponic tomato plants. He wants to establish what’s there, how it is affected by plant management, and how it in turn contributes to plant health and productivity.” | learn more
Researchers grew five types of tomatoes in soil and hydroponics to see how much bacteria impacted flavor. A lot, it seems! | learn more
The research was recently published in Nature Biotechnology. This is a niche use case, relatively speaking, with around 4 million people globally thought to suffer from injured corneas. But not only is it promising for them, it’s also another demonstration […]
The latest coverage I’ve read on the Dog Aging Project. This provides helpful context. “But dogs are just the beginning. Because they are a great model for humans, anti-aging or life-span-extending drugs that work for dogs could eventually benefit people, […]
“A new study found that sugar consumption leads to a loss of important immune cells in mice. Sugar appears to tip the microbiome balance away from bacteria that support immune cells in favor of non-beneficial bacteria.” | learn more
Retail problems keep repeating themselves. Overproduction and off-channel liquidation are two sides of the same coin. So why not a private marketplace? | learn more
“Finding the one thing that is at the heart of your value/scarcity matrix makes it much easier to focus your energy on strategic decisions.” | learn more
A collection of 27 examples of novel AI art. The tooling is advancing rapidly, and the creativity will certainly follow. | learn more
Stable Diffusion is an AI tool for generating images. It’s super fun to play with. It isn’t easy to prompt the right image (side note: play with it yourself here). Lexica is a search engine for over 10 million images and […]