Tag: science
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“It’s absolutely wrong for you to say that people might actually enjoy a train ride.”
Ogilvy’s Rory Sutherland with some insight into how humans fail to perceive time, and a couple book recos
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“It actually allows us to change human evolution, if we want to. It’s that profound.”
A video profile of Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel winning developers of CRISPR technology — and subject of Isaacson’s The Code Breaker.
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Brain wave-powered tech allows Canadian kids ‘trapped in their own bodies’ to play
Forget Neuralink – check out what they’re doing for kids with the Brain Computer Interface at Bloorview Kids Rehab in Toronto.
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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
Early contender for best read of 2024. A slim, readable and unforgettable thing.
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Plastic-eating microbes in The Guardian
This is fascinating science, and reads like the backstory to a Michael Crichton novel.
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I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World by Rachel Nuwer
This book exists in the Venn diagram where the circles labelled Michael Pollan, Gabor Maté and Bessel van der Kolk intersect. It’s tremendous. Incredibly well-researched and well-reasoned, this book could and should have a major influence on healthcare and drug policy in the United States and elsewhere. Nuwer directly engages with the critical research and news coverage of MDMA, the…
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The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains by Nicholas Carr
Probably the most useful thing I’ve read this year. If you work in any creative field, this is essential reading. Don’t let the subtitle fool you. This isn’t an anti-technology book, longing for the good old days of ink and paper. (there’s some of that, but it doesn’t matter). This book exists kind of at…
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The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
The first third or so felt like a bit of a slog – the author is dealing with really complicated science, and it’s not easy to simplify. He also gets bogged down in details that time will erase – deep in the weeds on disagreements and lawsuits, that could have been 25 pages shorter. However…