Popular Mechanics
Radioactive Diamond Battery Will Run For 28,000 Years: NDB Facts
3 min · · It's powered by nuclear waste, but still safe for humans. · Shared by 4, including Simon Fossom
VICE
Scientists Directly Manipulated Antimatter With a Laser In Mind-Blowing First
4 min · · The direct manipulation of antimatter will open up "unthinkable" possibilities in examining the fundamental makeup of our reality, scientists say. · Shared by 20, including Howard Getson, LARRY ELKAN, Simon Fossom, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
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
How to have better arguments online
16+ min · · 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 · Shared by 289, including Jane, Gabriele, Birgit Schefer, Mark Kaigwa, Neil Hart 💙, Nir Eyal, Simon Fossom, zoeamar, Richard Deitsch, Dambisa Moyo, Kyle Bunch, Anita Leirfall, Esther Schindler, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Andy Budd, Jonathan Haidt, Michael Clemens
BBC News (World)
The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make
14+ min · · 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? · Shared by 287, including David Owen, Bryan William Jones, Simon Fossom, Tom Raftery, Arin Basu, William Gibson, Esther Schindler, Jane, sonia (may or may not be notable), Enrique Dans, Eleanor Konik
Live Science
Humans could move to this floating asteroid belt colony in the next 15 years, astrophysicist says
6 min · · Should we build a 'megasatellite' of human habitats around the dwarf planet Ceres? It's more plausible than it sounds. · Shared by 17, including Carolyn Porco, Simon Fossom
Harvard Business Review
How Amazon Thinks About Competition
4 min · · To do well in business, a company needs to be both robust and nimble. · Shared by 174, including Massimiliano Aroffo, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Kate Nasser, Annette Franz, CCXP, Antonio Vieira Santos, Simon Fossom, davidabrock
WIRED
Babies May Be Drinking Millions of Microplastic Particles a Day
3 min · · 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. · Shared by 46, including Nicolas Babin, Marinel Bijmolt🤓
BBC News (World)
Has world started to take climate change fight seriously?
8 min · · A surprise announcement at the UN General Assembly has transformed the politics of cutting carbon. · Shared by 136, including Alexandria Villaseñor, William Gibson, Ray Monk, Naomi Klein, Simon Fossom, Katja Evertz, Cristina “Mitty” Mittermeier
Dan Rockwell
How Humble Leadership Really Works
1 min · · 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… · Shared by 101, including Elinor Stutz, Matt Heinz, Niklaus Gerber, Simon Fossom, Stephanie A Kowalski, Phillip Murphy, Bill George, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Scott Monty, Sergio Caredda, Katja Evertz
Gizmodo
40 Percent of the Amazon Is on the Brink of Transitioning to Savanna
3 min · · 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. · Shared by 49, including Simon Fossom, Mary Annaïse Heglar, pkashwan.bsky.social, Katja Evertz
The New York Times
When the Otters Vanished, Everything Else Started to Crumble
5 min · · Against the backdrop of climate change, the delicate underwater ecology of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands is hurting from declines in otters. · Shared by 47, including Simon Fossom, Dr. Jacquelyn Gill
hyperallergic
This 1902 Footage of a Flying Train Is the Film of the Summer
3 min · · The Museum of Modern Art has released a short film of a German elevated train from its archives, and it absolutely rules. · Shared by 89, including Anne Thompson, Bernhard Huessy, rudolph regter, Simon Fossom, Josep M. Ganyet, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
medium.com
Photoreal Roman Emperor Project
2 min · · 54 Machine-learning assisted portraits · Shared by 155, including Giuliano Liguori, Gregory B. Sadler 🦉 (no blue check, just owl), hardmaru, Esther Schindler, Simon Fossom, bouiboui, Stefan Diepolder, Birgit Schefer, Florian Hanke 🍎, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Pete Skomoroch
balajis.com
The Purpose of Technology
5 min · · If the proximate purpose of technology is to reduce scarcity, the ultimate purpose of technology is to eliminate mortality. · Shared by 442, including Brian Armstrong 🛡️, Vikram Dutt, Ryan Hoover, Peter van Sabben.eth, Neil Hart 💙, Jonathan Kogan, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Dominik Grolimund, Balaji, Stephan Woodtli, Simon Fossom, Nir Eyal, Gabriele, Thomas Power, rohit, Vala Afshar, Siraj Raval, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
WIRED
How a Chinese AI Giant Made Chatting—and Surveillance—Easy
3 min · · Alexa can tell you the weather. Siri knows a few jokes. In China, voice-computing company iFlytek built similar smart assistants beloved by users. But its tech is also helping the government listen… · Shared by 156, including Terence Mills, Neeraj K Agrawal, Oliver Raduner, Thomas Power, Kirk Borne, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, 瑞拿頭, Simon Fossom, Helen Yu, Carl Robinson 🎙️, Nicolas Babin