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Two hours on 9/11: An interview with Phil Penman
“I’m a mess whenever I think about 9/11 for too long. I know that my brain will never truly comprehend what I saw that day”. For most people who were unfortunate to find themselves amongst the terrible event…
A project to remove 88,000 tons of plastic from the Pacific has begun
An ambitious project to clean up the 88,000 tons of plastic floating in the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” has begun. On Sunday, the Ocean Cleanup Project started towing its “Ocean Cleanup System 001” from San Francisco to a trial site…
Stunning images of the New York City skyline every year on 9/11
The 9/11 terrorist attacks transformed New York City and its skyline. In the aftermath of the tragedy, smoke filled the air, casting a grey film over the city’s Financial District. As the smog began to lift, New Yorkers were confronted with…
Sony Continues to Drink Bose’s Milkshake
Photo: Adam Clark Estes (Gizmodo) If you listen to what Sony says, you could assume that the third generation of the Sony 1000X wireless headphones is all about better noise canceling. This wouldn’t be a wrong assumption. The company managed…
Tech elites are now paying $2,750 a year to freeze stem cells from liposuctioned fat as a ‘back up’ for a longer life
A startup called Forever Labs freezes and stores people’s stem cells as a kind of back-up drive for their future selves. The company is now offering a way to bank stem cells from fat stores instead of bone marrow. Stem…
LinkedIn sucks
I hate LinkedIn. I open it out of habit and accept everyone who adds me because I don’t know why I wouldn’t. There is no clear benefit to the social network. I’ve never met a recruiter on there. I’ve never…
A book outside currencies, my thoughts on passive investing strategies
Up until now I have mainly dedicated this blog to the development and discussion of algorithmic currency trading strategies. However I have always been interested in passive investing strategies in the stock/bond market but have never gone into that subject…
Elena Iv-skaya Conveys Beauty in Contrasts in “Double Beauty”
All images by Elena Iv-skaya. Used with Creative Commons permission. While the fashion world has been found guilty of promoting unreasonable beauty standards, fashion photographers like Elena Iv-skaya bring back our faith in the industry. In her latest set…
What causes human bodies to age? Here’s what scientists know about the biology behind growing old
Everything grows old. As you age, you may notice an extra wrinkle on your forehead or lower energy levels. To find out what’s going on inside our bodies that causes these age-related changes and declines, he journal Cell assembled a group…