biosynthetic materials
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/science/construction-concrete-bacteria-photosynthesis.html
Posts Tagged ‘x57s’
Bricks Alive! Scientists Create Living Concrete – The New York Times
February 13, 2020Opinion | She Helped a Customer in Need. Then U.S. Bank Fired Her. – The New York Times
February 1, 2020Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
February 1, 2020QT:{{”
“He had also written a farewell letter. “I believe that working for something larger than yourself is the greatest thing a human can do. A family, a cause, a company, a country—these things give shape and purpose to an otherwise mechanical and brief human existence,” the letter read. “The downside about things that are larger than ourselves, of course, is that we who have the privilege of serving them ourselves are fungible. It is the fundamental definition. You can’t have the grace of the one without the other.””
“}}
Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/paul-singer-doomsday-investor
The country home of capital – Why so many of America’s financial elite have left Greenwich | Finance and econo mics | The Economist
February 1, 2020Major bioscience incubator project planned for downtown New Haven | Hartford Business Journal
January 29, 2020Your Phone Is Listening and it’s Not Paranoia
January 27, 2020QT:{{”
““From time to time, snippets of audio do go back to [other apps like Facebook’s] servers but there’s no official understanding what the triggers for that are,” explains Peter. “Whether it’s timing or location-based or usage of certain functions, [apps] are certainly pulling those microphone permissions and using those periodically. All the internals of the applications send this data in encrypted form, so it’s very difficult to define the exact trigger.””
“}}
Your Phone Is Listening and it’s Not Paranoia
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines – The Washington Post
January 24, 2020A rather worrisome article, with a great quote: “Building technology was a lot more fun before it went all 1984.”
QT:{{”
But the perils of increasingly intimate supervision — and the subtle way it can mold how people act — have also led some to worry whether anyone will truly know when all this surveillance has gone too far. “Graduates will be well prepared … to embrace 24/7 government tracking and social credit systems,” one commenter on the Slashdot message board said. “Building technology was a lot more fun before it went all 1984.”
“}}
We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it | New Scientist
January 20, 2020https://www.newscientist.com/article/2191814-we-may-finally-know-what-causes-alzheimers-and-how-to-stop-it/
gum disease – Alz connection
linkstream2 microblog 