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#40: Prison Laptop, Sea Monsters, Baby Cries, Robots, Renewables, Space Debris Crash, Lunar Regolith, and more!

Hi everyone! Ever since I bought an old Macintosh Plus from 1986, I’ve been thinking about the inefficiency of modern software. Allow me to go on a rant…

Apr 20 •

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#37: Mysterious Bitcoins, Ingenuity, Miracle iPhone, Stuxnet, Yellowstone Power, USB Chargers, AI Chips, and more!

Jan 27 • Xavier Decuyper

#30: Naps, Killing Life on Mars, Stuart Little, Space Factory, Tilting Earth, and more!

Jul 8, 2023 • Xavier Decuyper

#32: Doing Hard Things, Brain Worm, Self-Healing Leather, Carbon Offsets, Copyright Fails, Coffee + Concrete, Deep Fakes, and More...

Sep 9, 2023 • Xavier Decuyper

#39: AI Developer, Marsprojekt, Consciousness, Cheap Batteries, xAI, Sense of Time, Hubble, and more!

Hi everyone! A few weeks ago I came across a blog post by Ryan Holiday where he writes about the importance of having systems in your life. Ryan is a…

Mar 23 •

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#38: Galactic Compass, Mini Museum, Tetris, Starlink Lasers, AI Job Loss, Snapdragon in Space, and more!

Hi everyone! A few months ago, I built an airplane lamp for my son's room. I wanted to make it as realistic as possible, and so I wondered: what are the…

Feb 24 •

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#37: Mysterious Bitcoins, Ingenuity, Miracle iPhone, Stuxnet, Yellowstone Power, USB Chargers, AI Chips, and more!

Hi everyone! First off, happy new year to you! I hope you started the year positively and are ready to make 2024 an exceptional year. As with every new…

Jan 27 •

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#36: Minitel, Space Tomato, DeepMind vs OpenAI, Nuclear Energy, Clean Ethylene, and more...

Hi everyone! This is embarrassing... In the previous edition, I wished you happy holidays and a great start to the new year. I didn’t realize that there…

Dec 30, 2023 •

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#35: Airships, Catapult to Space, CRISPR Cholesterol, Hammer in Space, Salty Batteries, Antibody Contraception, and more...

Hi everyone! I can't believe this is already the last newsletter of 2023. Time really flies when you're having fun! Last month I made an NFC reader for…

Dec 2, 2023 •

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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…

Nov 4, 2023 •

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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…

Oct 7, 2023 •

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