“No, tables are not being lowered at Round Rock Independent School District to accommodate kids who identify as animals and want to eat without their hands, the district said, after a woman running for House District 136 made the claim […]
The confluence of factors that led to its rediscovery is a lesson in how messy the world can be. | learn more
An IT worker at a mid-size law firm was asked to work from home and leaned into the situation. | learn more
New crypto technology allows people to organize in new ways. But it doesn’t prevent them amplifying dumb ideas and poor diligence in new ways. | learn more
A crypto group has developed a marketplace for organizing vote-buying in governance tokens. Why is this interesting? Well, consider how important vote-buying was to governance of cities and states in the US a hundred or so years ago. | learn more
“When electrons or atoms or individuals or societies interact with one another or their environment, the collective behavior of the whole is different from that of its parts. We call this resulting behavior emergent. Emergence thus refers to collective phenomena […]
It’s interesting to consider that most heretical views are only partially so. Tyler Cowen offers these categories: 1. Used to be heretical, or on the verge of switching. 2. It’s heretical to say but the actual idea is not heretical. […]
“A new study has uncovered a previously unknown hairpin-like structure within this protein that proved critical to an antibody response seen in mice, with an engineered version of the protein fragment also laying the groundwork for a vaccine against the […]
The inside story of Facebook Marketplace, as told by Deb Liu. She led the team that pitched, built, launched and scaled the world’s second-largest marketplace. It’s also my favorite place to sell random items like my old Apple TVs. | learn more
In a follow-up to a post from October where he described a visit to Nashuma’s Psychedelic Wellness Center, Daniel Zahler went back and actually tried the product. “I surrendered to the experience. For the next 60 minutes, I closed my eyes and […]