ProPublica
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
20+ min · · ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes,… · Shared by 950, including David Weigel, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Dr. Jeffrey Guterman, Brian Klaas, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ 🛡️, Ibram X. Kendi, Jay Rosen, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Brian Stelter, Paul Kedrosky, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, Judd Legum, Carl Zimmer, Ida Bae Wells, Thomas Piketty, Cliff Bleszinski, Marsha Collier, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Justin Wolfers, Rutger Bregman
The New York Times
How the Coming Population Bust Will Transform the World
9 min · · Fewer babies’ cries. More abandoned homes. Toward the middle of this century, as deaths start to exceed births, changes will come that are hard to fathom. · Shared by 362, including Kevin Kelly, Wolfgang Blau, Jason Silva, Ajit Pai, Tim O'Reilly, Eric Barker, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Dean Baker, Jeff Atwood, Heidi Shierholz, Andrew Dessler, Stowe Boyd, David Wallace-Wells, Michael (मुकेश), Bill Gurley, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Jeffrey Flier, Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️, Joss Fong ❌, James Anderson
The New York Times
The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same.
11+ min · · Psilocybin and MDMA are poised to be the hottest new therapeutics since Prozac. Universities want in, and so does Wall Street. Some worry a push to loosen access could bring unintended consequences. · Shared by 214, including Shelley Bonanno, MA, LLP (she/her/hers), Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, Daniel Kraft, MD, Sai Kan, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, MAPS, Vaughan Bell, Bjorn Larsen, Rick Powell, Forbes India, Dorlee Michaeli, MBA, LCSW, Scott Galloway, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D.
WIRED
The Teeny, Tiny Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
19+ min · · All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a mysterious error in decades-old research. · Shared by 714, including Moritz Stefaner, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Douglas Karr, Jeff Atwood, Gavin Schmidt, wil shipley, Jen Simmons, Rachel Glennerster, Dr. Simon A. Rego, Lee Keyes, Bethany Brookshire, Akshat Rathi, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, David CisMan, David Smith, Martin Stabe, Prof Steve Keen, Roger Highfield, zeynep tufekci, Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🥼🤹🦟🧀
The Atlantic
How Adult Children Affect Their Mother’s Happiness
5 min · · Plenty of moms feel something less than unmitigated joy around their grown-up kids. Make sure yours feels that she’s getting as much out of her relationship with you as she gives. · Shared by 187, including Sai Kan, Michelle Garrett, Jeff Atwood
National Geographic
Groundbreaking effort launched to decode whale language
11+ min · · With artificial intelligence and painstaking study of sperm whales, scientists hope to understand what these aliens of the deep are talking about. · Shared by 105, including Mike Tamir, PhD, Britney Muller 🇺🇦, Anita Leirfall, Nige Roberts-Willson, MIT CSAIL, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, David Eagleman
Nautilus Magazine
Life Beyond Human Has to Play by the Rules
12+ min · · There are many ways to think about alien, extraterrestrial life forms. Science-fiction writers do it all the time. Scientists, more… · Shared by 107, including Anita Leirfall, Patricia Churchland, Sai Kan
Noah Smith
Interview: Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe
20+ min · · In addition to being a friend and a Noahpinion subscriber, Patrick Collison is one of the world’s most successful founder-CEOs. Along with his co-founder and brother John, he built online payments… · Shared by 393, including Amjad Masad, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Michael Nielsen, David Perell, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Brian Armstrong 🛡️, Ross Dawson, Chris Sacca 🇺🇸, ⒿⒹⒽ, Kevin Kelly, Bilal Zuberi, Rob Moffat, Chris Messina, M.G. Siegler, tylercowen, Bryan William Jones, Alex Tabarrok 🛡️, Max Roser, Chris DeVore
Nautilus Magazine
The Link Between Bioelectricity and Consciousness
5 min · · “It’s really hard to define what’s special about neurons,” says Tufts molecular biologist Michael Levin. “Almost all cells… · Shared by 128, including Anita Leirfall, Sai Kan, John Hagel, Simon Fossom
The Guardian
Revealed: seafood fraud happening on a vast global scale
5 min · · Guardian analysis of 44 studies finds nearly 40% of 9,000 products from restaurants, markets and fishmongers were mislabelled · Shared by 133, including Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Christina Farr, Damian Carrington, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine
The Guardian
'It is the question of the century': will tech solve the climate crisis
14+ min · · Robots on coral reefs, vast barriers to hold back the glaciers, simulated volcanic eruptions to offset global heating ... Can technology repair the mess we have made? Elizabeth Kolbert is not… · Shared by 192, including Sai Kan, Prof Michael E. Mann, Katja Evertz, Neil Hart 💙
O'Reilly Media
The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?
20+ min · · Four ways the party may be coming to an end · Shared by 348, including Kyle Bunch, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Brian Ahier, Sai Kan, Marius Bleuer, Chris Messina, Simon Carless, Tim O'Reilly, 瑞拿頭, Carla Gentry 🎶, Wolfgang Blau, Gerd Leonhard, BrendanEich, Nathan Benaich, OM, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Nicolas Granatino🌻
MIT Technology Review
He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can't fix its misinformation addiction
20+ min · · Three years ago, the company began building "responsible AI." This is the story of how it failed. · Shared by 840, including Antonio Vieira Santos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Hilary Mason, Brendan Nyhan (@Brendan.J.Nyhan on 🧵🧵🧵), Kevin Roose, Andy Budd, Scott Monty, John Burn-Murdoch, Andreas Staub, Anne Applebaum, Carla Gentry 🎶, Casey Newton, Steve Silberman, Sarah Frier, Mathew Ingram, Bob E. Hayes, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Brian Solis, Azeem Azhar, Nige Roberts-Willson
Towards Data Science
Predictions and hopes for Graph ML in 2021
20+ min · · Leading researchers in Graph ML summarise the progress in 2020 and make predictions for 2021 · Shared by 13, including Sai Kan, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Researchers introduce a new generation of tiny, agile drones
6 min · · MIT researchers developed an insect-size drone with soft actuators — akin to muscles — that are agile and resilient to collisions. The advance could boost aerial robots’ repertoire, allowing them to… · Shared by 46, including Sai Kan, MIT CSAIL
academictimes.com
First vaccine to fully immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven RNA tech
4 min · · Consistently ranked as one of the leading causes of death around the world, malaria doesn’t have an effective vaccine yet. But researchers have invented a promising new blueprint for one — with… · Shared by 152, including Grace Bonney, Dr. Syra Madad, Esther Schindler, Mike Maples, Jr, David Ndii, Eric Holthaus, Sachin Rekhi, Helen De Cruz, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Ezra Klein, Zack Kanter, Martin Varsavsky, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola, Dr. Tom Frieden, Eghosa Omoigui, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Lauren Young, Dr Rani Lill Anjum 🐦