Singularity Hub
No Pigs Were Harmed for These Pork Sausages, But They're Real (Cultured) Meat
2 min · · Meatable says it only takes a few weeks to take its product from cell growth initiation to ready-to-eat sausages. · Shared by 62, including Rick Powell, John Hagel
MIT Technology Review
Edits to a cholesterol gene could stop the biggest killer on earth
1 min · · In a first, a patient in New Zealand has undergone gene-editing to lower their cholesterol. It could be the beginning of new era in disease prevention. · Shared by 324, including John Hagel, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jason Silva, Amy Webb 🤷🏻♀️, Brett King #TheFuturists #OptimalHumanity ✈️, Rick Powell, Gerd Leonhard
Tablet Magazine
The Certainty Trap
9 min · · The solution to our broken political conversation won’t be found in censoring 'misinformation' but in recognizing the profound limits of our own beliefs · Shared by 12, including Niall Ferguson, Rick Powell
The Washington Post
Perspective | Blight wiped out the American chestnut. Parallel efforts are close to bringing it back.
· One method, the slow, methodical work of traditional hybridization, is long familiar. The other, genetic engineering, is more controversial. · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Boston Review
Beyond Neoliberal Trade
20+ min · · With globalization under increasing scrutiny, national governments are poised to exert more power over markets. · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
The Guardian
Los Angeles could become largest US city to trial universal basic income
3 min · · $1,000-a-month per family pilot program in new budget, following similar schemes in Stockton, Oakland and San Francisco · Shared by 89, including AI, Rick Powell
The Guardian
The rice of the sea: how a tiny grain could change the way humanity eats
5 min · · Ángel León made his name serving innovative seafood. But then he discovered something in the seagrass that could transform our understanding of the sea itself – as a vast garden · Shared by 287, including Rick Powell, Matthias Lampe, Tom Connor, Dan Hill, John Hagel, Bruce Lawson
Boston Review
The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
15+ min · · An interview with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin on the climate crisis, COVID-19, and the future of environmental politics. · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
The New Yorker
Noam Chomsky Believes Trump Is “the Worst Criminal in Human History”
6 min · · The activist and linguist expressed serious concerns about the future of American democracy, although, in his view, it “was never much to write home about.” · Shared by 55, including Rick Powell, Liv 😷, Steve Silberman, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Dr. Jeffrey Guterman, Justin Tiehen, John Tasioulas
The Guardian
World fails to meet a single target to stop destruction of nature
6 min · · ‘Humanity at a crossroads’ after a decade in which all of the 2010 Aichi goals to protect wildlife and ecosystems have been missed · Shared by 230, including J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Damon Young, Tim, Birgit Schefer, George Monbiot, Rick Powell, Sébastien Bonset, luis antónio santos, Damian Carrington, ❤️ Umair
Visual Capitalist
The Decline Of Upward Mobility In One Chart
11+ min · · Each generation of Americans has historically earned more than their parents, but declining upward mobility is putting this growth at risk. · Shared by 134, including Stever Robbins @stever@newsie.social, Thomas Power, Clemens M. Schuster, Neil Hart 💙, Andy Budd, zeldman, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Vala Afshar, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Steve Case, Rick Powell
The Atlantic
I'm a Historian. I See Reason to Fear—and to Hope.
4 min · · We can’t assume that all will be fine in the end, but history shows us that times of unrest are opportunities, too. · Shared by 78, including Rick Powell, Kevin M. Kruse, Yale University
New York Magazine
Julián Castro and the ‘Timeless’ Policing Crisis
10 min · · Policing reform was the centerpiece of his failed campaign. Now, it’s all anyone is talking about. · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
Quillette
On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare
6 min · · Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem. · Shared by 10, including Rick Powell
mexiconewsdaily.com
Developers invited to create e-commerce option for tienditas
· Businesses such as tienditas that are suffering due to the coronavirus crisis could get some technological help from BBVA Next Technologies. · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Financial Times
Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’
12+ min · · The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next · Shared by 213, including Elrond Burrell (he/him), Eithiriel DeMeré 🏴🥀🏳️🌈, Thomas Power, Gerd Leonhard, Gregg Gonsalves, William Gibson, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Simon C, Mariana Mazzucato, Alice Wong 王美華, dj patil, Kai Kupferschmidt, Dr Joana Casaca Lemos, Philanthropy News Digest, Dr Rani Lill Anjum 🐦, Kainaz Amaria, Anne Thompson, Anthony Hamelle, Mark Kaigwa, Robin Wigglesworth