under the microscope
Hand transplants demonstrate the nervous system’s adaptability
“Work with hand transplant recipients challenges fundamental notions about the limits of neuroplasticity in mature adults.” | learn more
under the microscope
Gene therapy, absolutely and for real
“This weekend brought some really significant news in the long-running effort to use gene editing to treat human disease. As most readers will have heard, Boston Children’s Hospital and a Vertex/CRISPR effort both published papers in the NEJM addressing sickle-cell […]
retail therapy
A list of 117 retail bankruptcies and why they failed
“From executive missteps to pandemic-related shutdowns, we look at some of the biggest retail bankruptcies & companies that are going out of business in 2020.” | learn more
retail therapy
The great Canadian generic brand invasion
“How Canadians got so good at making generic products that are as good—or possibly, even better—than the name-brand equivalent.” | learn more
better doing
The opposite of a good idea is a good idea.
I recently finished reading Rory Sutherland’s book Alchemy. This concept of his made its mark on me, and I’ve been able to use it a handful of times already. Dave Baily expanded it into this short blog post that highlights […]
better doing
Beware the casual polymath
This is a very insightful post from the anonymously published blog Applied Divinity Studies. “[W]hat’s really happening is that we’ve chosen to privilege certain combinations of skills as impressive, while taking others for granted. A physicist who studies math, can […]
tech, startups, internet
Microsoft blog about recent cyberattacks
“The final weeks of a challenging year have proven even more difficult with the recent exposure of the world’s latest serious nation-state cyberattack. This latest cyber-assault is effectively an attack on the United States and its government and other critical […]
tech, startups, internet
What to do if you’re a startup CEO & you don’t know how to sell
“The first thing to confront is that as a CEO you’re the company’s primary salesperson. It doesn’t matter what industry, what product, what revenue model, what stage of development.” | learn more
oh, chicago
Chicago restaurants that have permanently closed during the pandemic
The Infatuation has this running list of closures by neighborhood. A friend pointed out that it’s only ~100 restaurants in a city of ~10,000. It’s surely incomplete, but also does seem like so far, the city’s come out relatively well. | learn […]
fun facts
Colombia’s remote Ice Age drawings
“Tens of thousands of cliff drawings dating back to the Ice Age have been revealed on nearly eight miles of cliff faces in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest. Archaeologists are calling the discovery “the Sistine Chapel of the ancients.”” These date back […]