E-cargo bikes change family travel. I can’t miss a chance to share a study promoting my favorite way to get around town. “E-cargo cycling may help cultivate a cycling culture both at the household level and the community level.” New […]
The myth of medieval beer over water. Contrary to the popular belief that medieval people drank beer to avoid unsafe water, historical evidence suggests they were more than willing to drink water when it was clear and odorless. I admit […]
Back up your data. A blaze at South Korea’s National Information Resources Service destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud system. “Due to the system’s large-capacity, low-performance storage structure, no external backups were maintained — meaning all data has been permanently lost.” […]
How an Enron parody turned into a financial mess of its own. “In our first interview in Fayetteville, Gaydos seemed to perfectly parody tech bro hubris. He insisted that the Enron nuclear reactor was real “in theory” and that “we […]
A Bitcoin-denominated regulated life insurer. The news is they raised some venture money, not not super newsy, but I look at it as the continued growth in the landscape of crypto products. “Founded in Bermuda, Meanwhile offers life insurance and […]
A different view on data centers and rising electricity rates. “Someone asked me about electricity rates increasing in areas that are serving new AI datacenters. It’s a fascinating story because it reveals multiple levels of coordination failure.” ~ learn more
Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease. A Finnish-UK study shakes up our understanding, suggesting heart attacks could stem from infections. Researchers found dormant bacteria in biofilms within artery plaques, which, when activated by a trigger like a viral infection, […]
Most correlations are not causal. “Simply selectively following advice, going along with fads, believing what’s popular and acting on it, and so on, can lead to correlations that ‘make sense’ from some research reference frame, but are not actually true.” […]
Can monetary rewards really boost health outcomes? The debate on using financial incentives to promote healthy behaviors is ongoing. As noted in the article, “outcomes depend heavily on design,” with some programs effectively motivating desired actions by carefully structuring the […]
Help them figure it out. I like this message even though it turns into a sales pitch at the end. “There’s a story that occurs constantly in the biographies of many creative and brilliant people. It goes something like this: […]