“Where it’s popular – in Massachusetts and now far beyond – “Russian math” is such a big “thing” that some parents worry their children will be at a disadvantage if they don’t enroll.“ | learn more
Authors: Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling A couple years ago I watched some of Hans Rosling’s TED talks and found them captivating. He was a Professor of Public Health, and had an amazing way of bringing statistics about the […]
Authors: Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Bob Andelman I was very excited to read the founding story of The Home Depot! Though I have never had an inside look before, I always believed this was a remarkable company. Everywhere I looked while […]
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb I must admit I may have gone about this backwards… Before reading the book, I read this excellent critique of it by Alex Lynch. It definitely helped me keep from getting sucked in to the passion with […]
“Researchers at the University of Sussex and Swansea University have applied electrical charges to manipulate liquid metal into 2D shapes such as letters and a heart. The team says the findings represent an “extremely promising” new class of materials that […]
I find this distinction interesting. Humans have been “modifying” crop and animal genes since the invention of agriculture by selecting for desired variants. Transgenic modification, where scientists literally splice in genes from unrelated organisms, has proven to be much more […]
The harvest was “grown without earth, daylight or pesticides as part of a project designed to help astronauts…” | learn more
New research from Northwestern Medicine has found the “recipe” for developing food allergies. “The factors contributing to food allergy include the genetics that alter skin absorbency, use of infant cleansing wipes that leave soap on the skin, skin exposure to […]
Researchers at Google Brain are doing some very neat work that crosses both computer vision & health. “Using deep learning algorithms trained on data from 284,335 patients, we were able to predict CV risk factors from retinal images with surprisingly […]
Michael Seibel from YCombinator wrote an essay discussing how to put the first thing first when starting a business. | learn more