Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
2008-10 Paul Graham … investors tend to be less willing to invest in bad times. They shouldn’t be. Everyone knows you’re supposed to buy when times are bad and sell when times are good.
Month March 2020
Machine Learning Takes On Antibiotic Resistance
2020-03-09 Katherine Harmon Courage In the February 20 issue of Cell, one team of scientists announced that they — and a powerful deep learning algorithm — had found a totally new antibiotic, one with an unconventional mechanism of action that…
Physicists determine the optimal soap recipe for blowing gigantic bubbles
2020-02-04 Jennifer Ouellette Study reveals that polymers of varying strand lengths are the key ingredient. The article includes the recipe for blowing gigantic bubbles.
How Expedia Solved a $100 Million Customer Service Nightmare
2020-03-03 Dan Heath When you spend years responding to problems, you can sometimes overlook the fact that you could be preventing them.
15 extra minutes
2020-02-10 Miguel Ferreira The only way you can get people to do anything is by giving them what they want. How David Bowie charmed journalists.
Sonic’s very fast redesign
2020-02-24 Mike Seymour When the redesign [of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie] was commissioned, Artist Tyson Hesse, who had worked on previous Sonic the Hedgehog media, was brought on to lead the redesign. “But a lot of the work that…