Searching for useful proteins in the DNA junk heap. “In their search for a new obesity treatment strategy, researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California have used CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology to closely examine an understudied class […]
Streetwear brands losing steam? “The trick is to move on to the next must-have before the existing one goes mainstream. But smaller brands lack the capital to scale up quickly and keep innovating. A newcomer’s invention only has a year […]
The ROI of exercise. Imagine investing just one year in physical activity over your lifetime and gaining 10 additional years of living. That’s the impressive return on investment exercise poses, according to Herman’s analysis. ~ learn more
You can try to like stuff. “It could be food or music or people or just the general situation you’re in. I recommend this hobby, partly because it’s nice to enjoy things, but mostly as an instrument for probing human […]
The management skill nobody talks about. Drawing from Dr. Becky Kennedy’s parenting advice, the article highlights the importance of “repair” in management. Acknowledging errors, taking responsibility, and genuinely fixing the fallout can build more trust than trying to be flawless. […]
Physical AI: the operating system for the real world. Venture fund RRE published their thesis on the conversion of robotics, autonomy and AI. “As models improve and compute gets cheaper, founders are unbundling the full-stack robotics paradigm into scalable and […]
The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles. “There are plenty of benchmarks full of numbers. I don’t get much value out of those numbers. There are leaderboards, but I’ve been losing some trust in those recently. […]
AI needs clinical trials. “Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakhani shares groundbreaking research on AI’s impact in the workplace through rigorous “clinical trials” at major organizations like BCG and Procter & Gamble. These studies reveal how AI fundamentally transforms work […]
Is Rotten Tomatoes still reliable? A statistical analysis. “If every movie is ‘Certified Fresh’, then maybe Rotten Tomatoes has changed, potentially skewed by corporate interests.” ~ learn more
How to build a medieval castle. It’s called experimental archaeology: “The project launched in 1998 with a straightforward mandate: Build a thirteenth-century castle using only thirteenth-century tools, techniques, and materials.” ~ learn more