“When a tuna marketing executive took a bite of the dehydrated tomato seasoned with olive oil, algae extract, spices, and soy sauce early last year, he was shook. “This is going to be a problem for us,” he said.” | learn more
“Long the stuff of science fiction and philosophical musing, cellular agriculture is fast becoming a reality.” | learn more
“Concrete may not seem like a particularly hospitable environment for life, but bacteria do actually live inside it. A new study led by the University of Delaware has examined this concrete microbiome to find out how they get there, how […]
Covid-19 isn’t the theme of this story, but it is one interesting observation. “Genetic scientists from the University of California Santa Cruz have learned that just 7%—or less—of our DNA is unique to the human species, with the remainder of […]
“The hardworking ones are precisely four times faster than the lazy ones. The hardworking enzymes are built with valine, the lazy enzymes with methionine.” | learn more
Don’t let the big words scare you off. This is an insightful analysis of the FDA’s recent approval of a new Alzheimers drug from Scott Alexander. Conclusion: unbundle the FDA! | learn more
“As an instructor in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), I spent four years teaching meditation as a full-time job.” Then one day, Dan Lawton discovered firsthand the rarely-discussed evidence of meditation’s risk, “including involuntary convulsions, panic, anxiety, dissociation and perceptual hypersensitivity—a […]
From Sean Harper, CEO and co-founder at Kin Insurance. “At my company, we have a bias toward action. We make it clear to employees at every level that the person closest to any problem should solve it. Moreover, we make […]
“How once upon a time the government wanted to put a backdoor in your phone.” | learn more
“Nvidia scanned its CEO, Jensen Huang, and trained an AI to mimic his gestures, creating a virtual replica of Huang, which the company used as part of its April keynote. In a blog post, Nvidia revealed that Huang did not […]