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The topics are technocracy, micro learning, circular, ideas, young pig blood, kirigami, what happens when founders leave, tiny houses, seagrass, haptics and parasites as part of healthcare.
Pig blood and parasites. Time for a good horror movie?
How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality
The Metaverse, crypto, interplanetary colonization, and transhumanism, not to mention AI—are an existential risk to the world in political, economic, and, perhaps most fundamentally, moral terms.
The Future of Learning: Microlearning’s Emerging Trends to Watch
Immersive tech, AI curated content, gamification, video nuggets, ecosystems and data.
Is a circular economy approach right for your business?
https://www.maddyness.com/uk/2023/08/23/is-a-circular-economy-approach-right-for-your-business/
Do you have innovative solutions to help the built environment and construction sector transition to net-zero carbon? Apply here https://www.circular-accelerator.com/
How New Ideas Arise
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-new-ideas-arise/?
Observation, moment, boredom, oversight, habit, necessity, serendipity and dreams. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/serendipity-is-hard-work/
Reversal of Biological Age in Multiple Rat Organs by Young Porcine Plasma Fraction
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.06.552148v1?
Young pigs rejuvenates old rat tissues at the epigenetic level; whether it alters the epigenetic clock, which is a highly accurate molecular biomarker of aging.
Ancient Japanese artform inspires ultrastrong light materials
Engineers have used kirigami to develop a type of high-performance ultrastrong yet very light material
What Happens to a Business When the Founder Leaves?
Read https://www.ronimmink.com/never-lose-the-founder-mentality/
This tiny house costs $37,600—and guess how it’s made?
https://www.fastcompany.com/90942405/this-tiny-house-costs-37600-and-guess-how-its-made?
The house of the future costs as much as a car
1 Million New Seagrass Seedlings Will Protect Sardinia’s Beaches While Storing 35-Times More Carbon Than Trees
I am a huge fan of seagrass.
A Haptic Future: Sensing the Virtual
https://www.silicon.co.uk/digital-transformation/a-haptic-future-sensing-the-virtual-525988?
Innovations in materials science could lead to the development of sophisticated haptic devices capable of conveying more nuanced tactile feedback. Furthermore, there are promising concepts around self-haptics.
Radical Trial Shows Hookworms May Protect People From Type 2 Diabetes
https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-trial-shows-hookworms-may-protect-people-from-type-2-diabetes?
Scientists inoculated volunteers with human hookworm larvae to see if these parasites can improve their metabolic health. Parasites as a recipes?