We need a lot of lithium because we need a lot of batteries. More battery manufacturing facilities are being funded than lithium extraction facilities. | learn more
“The new technique allows for even more sophisticated tracking to 3D print sensors on organs like the lungs or heart that change shape or distort due to expanding and contracting.” | learn more
A short and intriguing research paper. “Thousands of DNA variants have been identified that – aggregated into genome-wide polygenic scores (GPS) – account for more than 10% of the variance in phenotypic intelligence. The intelligence GPS is now one of […]
The approval came despite the advisory committee’s near-unanimous vote against it. “The approval, however, will do little to quell criticisms from the swath of Alzheimer’s researchers, biostatisticians, and clinicians who have argued that Biogen cherry-picked data and failed to show […]
This article in Wired (a couple years old) highlights companies that commercialize epigenetic clocks that predict biological age. I first learned of this technology in the book Lifespan, but I haven’t paid to take my own test yet. Have you? | learn more
“Workers accomplished the same amount but spent 2 hours more per day (7h vs 5h) at the office. So despite a reduction in commute hours, this company’s productivity declined (defining productivity as output per hour.)” | learn more
“With sleep playing such a big role in a person’s metabolic, immune, mental and overall health, it’s time for people to start taking their sleep seriously. How do you do that? According to Chicago entrepreneur Jeff Kahn, two actionable ways […]
Everyone seems to be having fun. | learn more
“The impetus for this groundbreaking study: a Maine restaurant that’s famous for hot boxing lobsters. Back in 2018, restaurateur Charlotte Gill of Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound sent the internet into a tizzy when she told a local newspaper that she […]
“Last month, the 67-year-old artist Salvatore Garau sold an “immaterial sculpture”—which is to say that it doesn’t exist.” The price? $18,300. | learn more