The default setting on modern humanity is for things to continually get better. Here is the New York Times: “Two decades ago,...
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“Engineers have saved far more lives than all of the doctors in the world” through their inventions. Engineering and science are the...
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Concrete is vital for protecting our coastlines – but it comes at a huge environmental cost. An Israeli startup has found a way to...
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Humans have left much more than footprints on the moon since the space age started in the 1950s. Check out the WSJ’s interactive...
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French startup Glowee is rethinking lighting by harnessing ‘bioluminescence’ – light produced by living organisms, like...
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Via 99% Invisible comes this fascinating discussion of Sand. Based on the book The World in a Grain, by Vince Beiser who traces the...
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National Geographic has a series of monster pieces about the July 20, 1969 Moon landing, but this one is must see: Explore 50...
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Source: Fast Company This is a fairly astonishing datapoint: “According to a genetic analysis by UCLA in 2010, what we call...
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The Simons Foundation was looking for a new editor for an existing magazine. They had reached out to Thomas Lin, digital editor at The...
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The transcript from this week’s MIB: Thomas Lin of Quanta, is below. You can stream/download the full conversation, including the...
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