1. Being Human in the Days/Daze of Big Data by Jeremy Pitt (AI, Technology and Society) 2. Straw Wars by Seth Stevenson (society, recycling, Slate) 3. What does ‘living fully’ mean? Welcome to the age of pseudo-profound nonsense (society, The Guardian) 4. Science is deeply imaginative: why is this treated as a secret? by Tom McLeish (science, aeon) Bonus: This heated fake keyboard was designed to fool your cat (via BoingBoing)
1. The Lattimer Massacre Happened More Than a Century Ago. The Sheriff’s Account of the Killing Could Have Been Written Yesterday. (history, Slate) 2. Britain’s Broken Parliament (cities, The Atlantic) 3. Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seas by Ian Urbina (society, The Guardian) 4. Teens are anxious and depressed after three hours a day on social media (science, MIT technology Review)and the original article: Riehm KE, Feder KA, Tormohlen KN, […]
1. Where Quantum Probability Comes From by Sean Caroll (science, Quanta) 2. A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked (science, The Atlantic) 3. ‘Ulysses’ on Trial by Michael Chabon (history, books, The New York Review of Books) 4. A New Timeline of the Day the Dinosaurs Began to Die Out (science, NYT) 5. The Massive Cost of Not Adapting to Climate Change (climate, economics, Fortune)
1. The “eat less meat” movement is growing. Does it distort science? (food) 2. What Is a Tech Company? (business, Stratechery) 3. Letter of Recommendation: Deadlifting (NYT) 4. Another Blow for the Future of Corals (science, climate, The Atlantic) 5. Ranking 42 Countries by Ease of Doing Digital Business (business, Harvard Business Review)
Our work on liquid-surface interactions just got published in Communications Physics. Great work by Daniel and the team at IMRE! Congratulations to all! You can read the paper here. Comments welcome. AbstractRecently, there has been much progress in the design and application of oil-repellent superoleophobic surfaces. Polyzwitterionic brush surfaces are of particular interest, because of their ability to repel oil under water, even in the absence of micro-/nanostructures. The origin of this underwater superoleophobicity is […]
1. The science of senolytics: how a new pill could spell the end of ageing (medicine, The Guardian) 2. The ‘ghost work’ powering tech magic (society, BBC) 3. The Geography of Risk by Gilbert M. Gaul (economics, Longreads) Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth, so why do taxpayers have to pay for the hurricane damage to rich coastal communities? 4. America, the Gerontocracy by Timothy Noah […]
1. Clumps of cells in the lab spontaneously formed brain waves (science) 2. Nudging Doesn’t Scale Nationally: Repeated text message, email and mail reminders from a state’s college system and the Common Application did not prompt more students to apply for FAFSA, a study finds. (economics) Not really a big a surprise, is it? Remember this failure? 3. Could expanding access to contraception improve economic outcomes? (health, economics, PBS) 4. Privacy is power (privacy, Aeon) […]
1. These Caterpillars Can ‘See’ Colors With Their Skin (science, NYT) Amy Eacock, Hannah M. Rowland, Arjen E. van’t Hof, Carl J. Yung, Nicola Edmonds, Ilik J. Saccheri, Adaptive colour change and background choice behaviour in peppered moth caterpillars is mediated by extraocular photoreception, Communications Biology, 2, 286 (2019). 2. Dating While Dying (NYT) 3. How Does a Think Tank Founder Do His job? podcast with Sean McElwee, co-founder of Data for Progress (startups, Slate) 4. […]
1. The $6 Million Drug Claim (healthcare, NYT) New treatments for rare diseases are changing the lives of patients, but the price can reach millions of dollars for a single person. 2. How Guilty Should You Feel About Your Vacation? (climate, NYT) 3. What Happens When War Is Outlawed by Louis Menand (politics, TNY) 4. Flora sapiens (can plants think?) by Emma Marris (science) 5. What U.S. Cities Facing Climate Disaster Risks Are Least Prepared? (climate, CityLab)
Our recent work on molecular electronics and plasmonics just got published. This has been a very fruitful collaboration with Christian Nijhuis‘ lab. The two publications are a follow up of our Nature Photonics paper. It took us couple of years to complete the work but the results look really great. Congratulations to the researchers, postdocs and PhD students who did the work and made it possible. Directional Excitation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons via Molecular Through-Bond […]
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