“The hedonometer is based on people’s online expressions, capitalizing on data-rich social media, and measures how people present themselves to the outside world.” | learn more
“To be blunt, it looks like the lack of democracy under British rule was a key component of Hong Kong’s ascent. The policies worked wonders, but they never became democratically self-sustaining.” | learn more
“She was given a large dataset of echo-sounding data – profiles of depth to the seafloor collected by research vessels traversing the oceans. The data were presented on rolls of paper, tens of meters long, and Marie was given the […]
From Vinod Khosla: “12–15 entrepreneurs, driven by entrepreneurial energy and passion for a vision, could change the climate crisis into societal transformation.” | learn more
The modern view of food as building blocks & fuel misses part of the picture. “[D]eep in the detailed pages of journals such as Cell Host & Microbe and Nature Reviews Endocrinology, a profound transformation is occurring in scientific ideas […]
I regularly allow my children to immerse themselves in dirt, and luckily this study makes me feel great about it. “Finnish researchers just published the first big test of the “biodiversity hypothesis”—that exposure to the microbes in dirt is good […]
A couple weeks ago I shared a recent study showing extreme benefits of vitamin D for Covid-19 patients (or maybe the extreme detriments of vitamin D deficiency). More on the curious case of vitamin D, and the murky world of understanding science. | learn […]
Harvey Finkelstein has an interesting story. One of the first merchants on Shopify with a t-shirt store, he joined the team a few years in, becoming COO and now President. He has a unique perch to see the development of […]
From Benedict Evans: “What’s going to happen in ecommerce and retail? TV? TV ads? Retail? Brands? Online advertising? There are half a dozen huge industries where all of the cards are being thrown up in the air, and no-one really […]
New therapeutics bring us to the brink of fixing underlying causes of many diseases. But, “If we can’t do those “easy” things—test for the virus, provide medical care for those that need it, even just get people the right PPE—how […]