One Couple’s Tireless Crusade to Stop a Genetic Killer
When Sonia Vallabh lost her mother to a rare disease, she and her husband, Eric Minikel, set out to find a cure.
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Debating Tyler Cowen | Inside Higher Ed
Alt-acs and the scary prospect of public writing about something other than higher education.
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Jellyfish Genome Hints That Complexity Isn’t Genetically Complex - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Jellyfish didn’t need novel genes to take an evolutionary…
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Friends Don't Let Friends Become Chinese Billionaires
The life expectancy of a Chinese billionaire isn't pretty; one dies every 40 days.
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Humans: The Domesticated Primates
A few years ago, I stayed in Kenya with the conservationists Karl and Kathy Ammann, who kept a rescued chimpanzee named Mzee in their home. Even as a young…
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The Case for the Longer Term
Tyler Cowen says sustainable long-term economic growth rates are much more important than we seem to realize.
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8 Predictions for What the World Will Look Like in 20 Years
It’s 2039 and just about everything’s changed. Photo-Illustration: Eugenia Loli This month, we are all tentatively dipping our toes into the New Year, wondering…
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How American parenting is killing the American marriage
Sometime between when we were children and when we had children of our own, parenthood became a religion in America.
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A more intimate aesthetic of politics — on Insta
"Ocasio-Cortez's uses of Instagram seem to be less about humanizing an individual politician than about politicizing humans; that is, bringing more humans, particularly young humans, into the fold and representing electoral politics as something they have a genuine stake in."
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Childhood's End | Edge.org
Conversation : CULTURE The digital revolution isn’t over but has turned into something else Nations, alliances of nations, and national institutions are in…
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Submarine Psychiatry
[Image: An otherwise unrelated photograph of a submarine, via Vice]. Something I’ve always loved about the architectural novels of J. G. Ballard—his excellent but under-rated Super-Cannes, the clas…
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The Supply Chain Africa Needs
Comparing product development stories across the continent At a conference in Nairobi two years ago, an engineer visiting from Rotterdam stunned me with how easy it was for his team to order electronic components: an order for a BLE chip placed on Thursday evening would be fulfilled by lunch on Fri
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A History of Flavoring Food With Beaver Butt Juice
No, castoreum is not a cheap substitute for strawberries; it’s luxe, artisanal secretions from a beaver's rear end.
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52 things I learned in 2018 - Kent Hendricks
This year was pretty great. Here are some of the more interesting things I learned: Around 90% of infants lie with their heads facing right. ( Gardner, et. al.…
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The U.S. Dollar is Set to Implode says Bridgewater Founder Ray Dalio
© Adobe Stock - Next crisis to leave USD looking like Turkish Lira says Ray Dalio. - As foreign debt and rising inflation drive currency ...
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The pizza scam you probably didn’t know about
Today I’m going to give you a juicy investigative piece on … wait for it … pizza. I was in a hurry the other day, and my local pizzeria had just opened. The guy behind the counter had s…
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When Your Body Says No
A lifelong runner and outdoor athlete is hit with a mysterious physical breakdown. Once the engine starts to fail, what happens to the mind?
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LeBron James’s “The Shop” Reinvigorates the Celebrity Interview
On his HBO show, LeBron James gets his famous guests to let their guards down and have genuine conversations about the issues that plague and delight them.…
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What if MLB prospects could share the risk of never reaching the bigs?
A startup company is trying to pool together minor league baseball players' earnings to share risk. Can it catch on?
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How LeBron James Became Stephen Curry
By Ben Cohen Dec. 20, 2018 10:37 a.m. ET Illustration: Mike Sudal/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL In the summer of 2015, not long after the Cleveland Cavaliers lost to…
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Amoeba finds approximate solutions to NP-hard problem in linear time
Researchers have demonstrated that an amoeba—a single-celled organism consisting mostly of gelatinous protoplasm—has unique computing abilities that may one day offer a competitive alternative to the methods used by conventional computers.
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The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun
The U.S. has added 10,000 of these budget retail outlets since 2001. But some towns and cities have had enough.
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Life and Death on El Capitan
Tim Klein and Jason Wells were weekend warriors. They were also two of the best climbers to ever ply their trade on Yosemite's most iconic wall. So the climbing world was stunned when they died on some of its easiest terrain.
