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Platypus genome

May 5, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/science/platypus-genome-echidna.amp.html

How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism | The New Yorker

May 5, 2021

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/30/how-venture-capitalists-are-deforming-capitalism

With Shopify, Small Businesses Strike Back at Amazon – WSJ

May 5, 2021

https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-shopify-small-businesses-strike-back-at-amazon-11615611603

The next big thing in retail comes with Chinese characteristics | The Economist

May 4, 2021

https://www.economist.com/business/2021/01/02/the-next-big-thing-in-retail-comes-with-chinese-characteristics

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The first pillar of this new retail architecture is “social commerce”. This relies on three related technologies: live-streaming, short-form video and social-networking. The biggest live-streamer is Alibaba’s Taobao Live. In just 30 minutes of presales for Singles Day, China’s answer to Black Friday, it notched up $7.5bn-worth of sales, about as much as Amazon is thought to have sold in its “Prime Day” in October (which actually lasted 48 hours). In June Douyin set up its own shopping division, having earlier hosted many of its live-streams where the likes of Taobao teamed up with celebrity influencers to sell products. The video-app’s 600m daily users confer a valuable resource—their attention. In the autumn it made its proprietary debut on Singles Day."}}

Frontiers | The Reverse Transcriptase Encoded by LINE-1 Retrotransposons in the Genesis, Progression, and Therapy of Cancer | Chemistry

May 1, 2021

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2016.00006/full

Year Without a Summer – Wikipedia

May 1, 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

Yalta Conference – Wikipedia

April 30, 2021

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference

Victory in Europe Day – Wikipedia

April 30, 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day

Those who worry about CO2 should worry about methane, too | The Economist

April 29, 2021

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/04/03/those-who-worry-about-co2-should-worry-about-methane-too

What your gut says about you – ScienceDirect

April 29, 2021

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407920300919
microbiome privacy, referring to a paper by Boston-based researchers