I remember chuckling at a restaurant in Europe when the waiter said the burger was made of cow. It sounded foreign to my ear. I hadn’t considered how it came to be that we refer to animal meats by unique […]
His usual $25k/month fee was paid in stock, and now estimated to be worth $100MM. Now he’s become a venture capitalist with an interesting approach to getting allocation in hot tech deals. | learn more
It’s been a long time since I’ve talked about water. Well, let’s dive right back in. Being next to an abundant source of drinking water puts Chicago at a disadvantage for developing water technology. Israel is in the opposite position. […]
“Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, worked with a team of researchers to look at the 38 papers published in peer-reviewed journals in the last decade that denied anthropogenic global warming. ‘Every single one of those analyses […]
This has actually worked in 5 patients already! “AST-OPC1 cells are being developed at California-based Asterias Biotherapeutics using embryonic cells and converting them into cells normally found in the brain and spinal cord and whose function it is to support […]
Tomasz Tunguz bring us a nice short post highlighting two times when people took public ownership of their errors, and the positive consequences that ensued. One error was deadly serious – a friendly fire incident involving Navy Seals. | learn more
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy just took a job as Director of AI at Tesla. He made this great presentation analyzing the state of and prospects for AGI. | learn more
A team from Stanford has made progress on a system they call radiative sky cooling. Originally created in 2013, their latest real-world test … “found that throughout the summer the panels cut the power needed to cool the building by more […]
A few weeks ago, I posted about lab-grown meat, and talked about how I’m really excited for it. Well, lab-grown seafood is also exciting, and entrepreneurs and scientists are making great progress there as well. | learn more
You may have heard one of my rants about the lack of good research on diet and nutrition. The lack of good research makes it easy for bad research to get noticed. Things like statistical “p-hacking” are a real threat […]