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#34: Unfair coin flips, Wikenigma, Robots, NASA's Screws, Carl Sagan's Experiment, 23andMe Hacked, MRI Machine, Monkey with Pig Organs, and…
Hi everyone! As always, I’ll start this newsletter with a personal story. Last month, I wanted to buy a bookcase for my home office. I wanted a modern…
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#30: Naps, Killing Life on Mars, Stuart Little, Space Factory, Tilting Earth, and more!
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#32: Doing Hard Things, Brain Worm, Self-Healing Leather, Carbon Offsets, Copyright Fails, Coffee + Concrete, Deep Fakes, and More...
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#31: Primer on Superconductors, QR Art, Banknotes, Slime Mold, CRISPR, Radiopharmaceuticals, and more!
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#33: Tire hair, Wikiracing, Breakthrough battery, Asteroid sample, Tesla Optimus, Microplastics, and more...
Hi everyone! I recently came across a great life lesson by Dr. Wayne Dye: Why the Inside Matters. While he was speaking at a conference he brought an…
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#32: Doing Hard Things, Brain Worm, Self-Healing Leather, Carbon Offsets, Copyright Fails, Coffee + Concrete, Deep Fakes, and More...
Hi everyone! When I was in school, I was constantly asking myself "what's the point of learning this"? I knew pretty early on that I wanted to become a…
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#31: Primer on Superconductors, QR Art, Banknotes, Slime Mold, CRISPR, Radiopharmaceuticals, and more!
Hi everyone! Over the past two weeks, I’ve been following the news around LK-99 with great interest. It’s a potential room-temperature superconductor. I…
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#30: Naps, Killing Life on Mars, Stuart Little, Space Factory, Tilting Earth, and more!
Hi everyone! It finally happened. After 742 days, I finally uploaded a new video on YouTube! It’s about dark mode and how it can have a positive and…
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#29: Aliens and UFOs, Brain Implant, Pregnancy is Doping, Energy from thin air, ChatGPT caught lying (again), and more!
Hi everyone! Last time, I wrote about my fear of missing out on AI, and how I haven’t used it for anything meaningful. Well, no more! I found that Bing…
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#28: SpaceX, AI Disruption, Ancient Virus, Clickbait, Ocean Fertilization, Home Runs, Voyager 2, and more!
Hi everyone! The past month, I’ve been bombarded by articles and tweets about how people use AI tools to increase their productivity, triple their…
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#27: AI Brain, Space Cup, 3D-printed Rocket, GPT-4, Copilot, 4-day Workweek, Twitter Algorithm, and more!
Hi everyone! Where to begin... In the past month, we’ve seen an explosion of AI announcements. AI is getting ever more powerful, and now it’s being…
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