“Internet Retailer asked retailers and consumers how they think a ruling—expected by the end of June after arguments this spring—will impact them.” Notably, this isn’t impactful for Amazon because they already collect sales tax everywhere. It’s also inevitable, in my […]
“The centre’s press service said: ‘There has been an unsanctioned attempt to use computer facilities for private purposes including so-called mining.’” |learn more
Well, this looks bad. | learn more
Sure, it’s a tiny country with limited industry, but this is still awesome! They use a mixture of hydro, geothermal, wind, biomass and solar energy. | learn more
Vijay Pande writes on the a16z blog about the transition we’re going through in healthcare. “When you finally understand the spaghetti code of bio, what can you do with it? The answer is that we’re living in a new age […]
“There exists a little-known, government-sponsored marketing group called Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), whose job it is to squeeze as much milk, cheese, butter, and yogurt as it can into food sold both at home and abroad. Until recently, the “Got […]
Rather than pay the steep price for Dr. Longo’s ProLon program, Bob from QuantifiedBob.com recreated his own version from the original patent filing. Then, he recorded all of his bio-metrics for the 5-day experiment. | learn more
Warning: this is dense technical reading. “Thus, through identification of a natural enzyme with the pre-existing qualities relevant to an ultimate goal and redefinition of its substrate specificity using computational modeling, we were able to generate an enzyme with potential […]
“Scientists have grown real, twitching muscle from chunks of flesh before. But now, they’ve made muscle fibers out of undifferentiated stem cells.” | learn more
This post tells the story of how the Vanderbilt family went from a consolidated $5B fortune in 1886 to not a millionaire among them in 1973. It’s advice on what not to do. | learn more