Men's Health Mag
How Much Time Should You Spend Outside, According to Michael Easter
5 min read · Jun 6th · Americans spend 92 percent of their time indoors, and their physical and mental health are suffering. This three-number formula for how much time to spend in nature fixes that.
Popular Mechanics
Radioactive Diamond Battery Will Run For 28,000 Years: NDB Facts
3 min read · Jun 6th · It's powered by nuclear waste, but still safe for humans.
VICE
Scientists Directly Manipulated Antimatter With a Laser In Mind-Blowing First
4 min read · Mar 31st · The direct manipulation of antimatter will open up "unthinkable" possibilities in examining the fundamental makeup of our reality, scientists say.
Nautilus Magazine
The Link Between Bioelectricity and Consciousness
5 min read · Mar 12th · “It’s really hard to define what’s special about neurons,” says Tufts molecular biologist Michael Levin. “Almost all cells…
The Guardian
How to have better arguments online
~16 min read · Feb 16th · The long read: The troubled times we live in, and the rise of social media, have created an age of endless conflict. Rather than fearing or avoiding disagreement, we need to learn to do it well
BBC Future
The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make
~14 min read · Mar 17th · Nearly 200 years ago, Dhaka muslin was the most valuable fabric on the planet. Then it was lost altogether. How did this happen? And can we bring it back?
Live Science
Humans could move to this floating asteroid belt colony in the next 15 years, astrophysicist says
6 min read · Jan 19th · Should we build a 'megasatellite' of human habitats around the dwarf planet Ceres? It's more plausible than it sounds.
Harvard Business Review
How Amazon Thinks About Competition
4 min read · 2020-12-21 · To do well in business, a company needs to be both robust and nimble.
WIRED
Babies May Be Drinking Millions of Microplastic Particles a Day
3 min read · 2020-10-19 · Scientists discover that baby bottles shed up to 16 million bits of plastic per liter of fluid. What that means for infants’ health, no one can yet say.
BBC News (World)
Has world started to take climate change fight seriously?
8 min read · 2020-09-29 · A surprise announcement at the UN General Assembly has transformed the politics of cutting carbon.
Dan Rockwell
How Humble Leadership Really Works
1 min read · 2020-10-08 · Humility isn’t: Slow and stupid.Afraid to acknowledge strengths and talents.Passive and weak.Easily manipulated.Satisfied with mediocrity.Disinclined to bring up tough issues.Reluctant to act…
Gizmodo
40 Percent of the Amazon Is on the Brink of Transitioning to Savanna
3 min read · 2020-10-05 · Huge swaths of the Amazon have gotten so dry that they may be on the brink of transitioning into an entirely different kind of ecosystem, new research published in Nature Communications warns.
The New York Times
When the Otters Vanished, Everything Else Started to Crumble
5 min read · 2020-09-10 · Against the backdrop of climate change, the delicate underwater ecology of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands is hurting from declines in otters.
hyperallergic
This 1902 Footage of a Flying Train Is the Film of the Summer
3 min read · 2020-08-27 · The Museum of Modern Art has released a short film of a German elevated train from its archives, and it absolutely rules.
medium.com
Photoreal Roman Emperor Project
2 min read · 2020-07-26 · 54 Machine-learning assisted portraits
balajis.com
The Purpose of Technology
5 min read · 2020-07-19 · If the proximate purpose of technology is to reduce scarcity, the ultimate purpose of technology is to eliminate mortality.
