oh, chicago
Ride-hailing apps & DUI arrests.
How did the rise of Uber & Lyft correlate with the number of DUI arrests? There’s no proof of causation, but the correlation looks great! | learn more
fun facts
Étienne Terrus museum uncovers fake art in collection.
“More than half of the paintings in a museum in French artist Étienne Terrus’ birthplace were fake.” | learn more
big ideas
MIT media lab does cool stuff.
“For more than 30 years, MIT has been recruiting people with crazy ideas to work in their Media Lab, where life-changing inventions are created. 60 Minutes got a peek at what they’re working on now.” | learn more
under the microscope
Peanut allergies in mice alleviated by vaccine.
“Just three monthly doses of a nasal vaccine protected the mice from allergic reactions upon exposure to peanut, according to research from the Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center at the University of Michigan.” | learn more
better doing
Why I overestimate my contribution to my team.
“Every person in a team overestimates his or her contributions to the team. The bigger the team, the greater the overestimation…” | learn more
on the blockchain
Messari deck about token-curated registries.
CEO Ryan Selkis (aka TwoBitIdiot) presented from these slides this week to explain what Messari is up to. “The token-curated registry is a new application for incentivizing the creation and maintenance of high quality decentralized lists.” | learn more
on the blockchain
TD Ameritrade posts an ad on Bitcoin’s blockchain.
This is really clever! |learn more
tech, startups, internet
Russia breaks the internet trying to ban Telegram.
The Russian government asked for the encryption keys to be able to read users’ private messages. Telegram replied with a hard no. So, the Russians blocked all of their IP addresses. Telegram started hosting on Amazon and Google. Then Russia […]
tech, startups, internet
The top 20 reasons startups fail.
CB Insights analyzed over 100 failure post-mortems to identify the top reasons startups fail. | learn more
tech, startups, internet
What does insurance data say about Tesla’s safety?
Sam Korus from ARK Invest has a very neat analysis of the raw data, including fun charts! |learn more