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The SpaceX guide to exceptional engineering

October 6, 2024

https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/09/26/the-spacex-guide-to-exceptional-engineering

What “supertall” skyscrapers reveal about countries that build them | The Economist

October 6, 2024

https://www.economist.com/interactive/culture/2024/09/20/what-supertall-skyscrapers-reveal-about-countries-that-build-them

Look at the face I found with PimEyes! Try it yourself on PimEyes.com! | PimEyes

October 4, 2024

reverse search of myself
https://pimeyes.com/en/results/XXz_241005qk6ne9wt2fybzgm392c8b3a?query=1f27030736f031038339f900707061f3

Did Apple Just Kill Social Apps? – The New York Times

October 4, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/apple-social-apps-contacts-change.html

AI scientists are producing new theories of how the brain learns

October 4, 2024

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/08/14/ai-scientists-are-producing-new-theories-of-how-the-brain-learns

The battle over the trillion-dollar weight-loss bonanza

October 4, 2024

https://www.economist.com/business/2024/03/04/the-battle-over-the-trillion-dollar-weight-loss-bonanza glp-1 agonists

QT:{{”
The drugs’ biggest impact so far, though, has been on their makers. Sales of Wegovy, developed by a Danish firm called Novo Nordisk, swelled from $876m in 2022 to $4.5bn in 2023. The company expects double that this year. Zepbound, introduced in America in November by Eli Lilly, an American pharma giant, is expected to generate $2.9bn in sales in its first full year. Bloomberg, a data provider, predicts that by 2030 yearly sales of weight-loss medications will reach a staggering $80bn, putting them among the biggest classes of drugs in history. Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk are expected to corner more than 90% of the market (see chart 2).
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How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science | Scientific American

October 4, 2024

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-guinness-brewery-invented-the-most-important-statistical-method-in/

t-test by William Gosset

Life’s hidden laws: The arcane rules of evolution and how they work | New Scientist

October 4, 2024

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25934470-200-lifes-hidden-laws-the-arcane-rules-of-evolution-and-how-they-work/

cope’s, allen’s, foster’s…

Disinformation is on the rise. How does it work?

October 3, 2024

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/05/01/disinformation-is-on-the-rise-how-does-it-work

It is dangerously easy to hack the world’s phones

October 3, 2024

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/05/17/it-is-dangerously-easy-to-hack-the-worlds-phones