“Despite his financial ruin, Cage doesn’t regret all of his purchases. “You have good investments and bad investments,” he says. “The good investments came from personal interest and my honest enjoyment of the history.” | learn more
“Octopuses are surprisingly intelligent, and reproduce at 1 year old. If we’d started a breeding program 50 years ago, we probably could’ve gotten them smarter than dolphins by now. A disappointing failure of the long-term mad science ecosystem.” | learn more
The founder, “Jim [Casey] led UPS for fifty-five years. He continued as the Chief Executive Officer of UPS until 1962, when he handed over the reins at age seventy-four.” | learn more
A really interesting read from Outlier Ventures: “We believe the next phase of growth in the evolution of DeFi will come not from better integration into the existing financial system, more regulation or real world assets and CeFi but instead […]
I finally got around to reading the annual tome from Messari’s Ryan Selkis. It is an incredible snapshot of what’s going on in the ecosystem. He does not shy away from making predictions (and drilling into SEC Chair Gary Gensler. | learn […]
This gets detailed! “I show how price manipulation to liquidate traders is done in cryptocurrency markets. I point fingers at people.” | learn more
This is a theme I’ve been following since last year. Most batteries, especially vehicle batteries, rely on Lithium. In the near-term, there isn’t enough supply. For reference, the spot price is up 5x YoY, and about 30% in the past […]
True World Foods, the company established by Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, is responsible for bringing the taste for sushi, and the supply of fish, to America. | learn more
“From the beginning we are introduced to a menagerie that perches in the gray area between alive and not-alive: creatures like tardigrades and nematodes that can reemerge from cryptobiosis with the touch of water, pythons whose basal metabolic rates can […]
“A new study has shown how targeting an enzyme within fat cells can alter sensitivity to leptin and in turn drive rapid weight loss in obese mice, while also improving overall metabolic health.” | learn more