Australian scientists have discovered how to map the geological history of the earth in grains of sand, by measuring the distribution of zircon within the sand.
Jeff Huang and other researchers from Brown University published some interesting research on how sleep patterns across countries changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bloomberg Green published a great page describing the massive detrimental impact that the fashion industry has on the environment. 11.3 million tonnes of clothes are thrown away in the U.S. each year, most of which contain polyester.
Tim Ferriss put together a great list of 30 thought-provoking quotes in a recent issue of his 5-Bullet Friday newsletter. I particularly like the quote from Rosamund and Benjamin Zander: "I will have to remember ‘I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.'"
Virgin Hyperloop has announced a pivot from focussing on passenger travel to concentrating on carrying freight. They say the change in direction was brought about because of global supply chain issues and COVID.
Researchers at Linköping University have created and connected synthetic organic neurons and synapses to those of a Venus fly trap plant and successfully triggered the plant to close its leaves.
Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a new technique to fight antibiotic resistance in bacteria by identifying and inhibiting proteins that help store and spread resistance information.
Open Weather is an artistic collaborative project that teaches people how to pick up the radio transmissions of the NOAA weather satellite and to submit your weather readings to contribute to the artistic and open archival project
There are hours of fun to be had using this Traffic Simulator while you strive to achieve peak traffic flow efficiency across a number of different road layouts.
