I will explain why lab-grown meat is going to be a thing, I promise. But it may be a bit of a wander. Ready? Let’s go.
The first name that typically comes up when someone hears about exponential technologies is Gordon Moore.
I remember the conversation vividly. It was 2010, and TED had only recently launched the TEDx program. I was debating whether I should apply for a license and asked a colleague what she thought. “How would you feel,” she asked thoughtfully, “if someone else in Christchurch did it first?”
I…
I started my first business when I was 6 years old. New York City, 1979: I’d take a pile of books from our house, lay them out on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and sell them for whatever I could get.
It was an unbeatable business model…
“This is not who we are,” said Joe Biden on Wednesday, as armed insurrectionists freely roamed the Capitol:
Let me be very clear: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America. Do not represent who we are. …
It was the seventh day of the eleventh month of the first year of the new millenium, and I had failed to vote.
I mean, it wasn’t that big of a deal. I wasn’t trying to make a statement, or feeling particularly disillusioned or disenfranchised. …
Dear America,
First, a quick update from New Zealand. Despite what you may have heard, we do not have any “massive breakouts” or “big surges” of coronavirus. Our pandemic response has most certainly not turned our country into a “hellhole.”
As of this writing, we have 111 active cases…
Let me start by saying that I know this is not about me.
This is about justice, and injustice, and what each of us can do to bend the arc of the moral universe just that tiny bit more.
The mission went horribly wrong.
First, a fire broke out while the team was refueling on the Russian space station.
Then, the hull of one of the two spacecrafts was punctured by debris as they approached the asteroid, killing most of the crew.
The other spacecraft landed safely but missed…
“When will life go back to normal?” asked Business Insider, before offering this answer: “[I]n some places, we will be able to begin to safely relax some restrictions in May or June. But life may not return to ‘normal normal’ until 2021.”
BBC, same question. Their answer: anywhere from 12…
