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Minding the Gap : the Case Against Anthropology in Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs aren’t looking to understand the world such as it ‘really is’. They just need to get a good enough grasp of a given context.
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The World’s Not Enough : Steve Jobs Held Hostage By Own Exquisite Taste
It’s sad to think that we need disaster to strike in our lives, in order to sober up and see what’s worth a damn. Sad, but at the same time also somehow hopeful.
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Trying to Grasp Photonics
What other branch of science can claim to solve teleportation and levitation? Where else to turn for invisibility cloaks and computers which run on light alone?
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BUST! the Productive Failure of LK-99
Ambient pressure room temperature superconductivity didn’t happen. But the LK-99 debacle was kind of inspiring in at least two ways.
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BOOM!
Let’s sacrifice a goat and pray that room temperature superconductivity is actually finally *happening*!
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This Could Change Everything : Superconductivity Heating Up
If we could figure out how to achieve superconductivity at higher temperatures, it would be such a huge deal that the impact is hard to even imagine. This might just be on the brink of happening now…
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The Science of Science
There’s an emerging scientific discipline dedicated to the study of science itself.
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Making Belief : A Brief History of World Expos
World expos might have played out their roles today, but historically they’ve had three important functions to fill.
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What We Need Libraries For
I like to think of future libraries as places where we go to be inspired and surprised.
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Sundar Pichai in da House : Google’s CEO on AI, the Digital Divide and the Future of Robotics
His soft spoken reflectiveness feels about as far away from your typical tech-bro as is possible to imagine.
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Atomic Swing : A Brief History of the Shifting Swedish Nuclear Policy
Public discourse is swinging back into favouring nuclear power, but this time there’s a visionary mismatch between politicians and scientists.
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Aspects of Fashion That Never Crossed My Mind
Representational aesthetics is all about what stories we’re trying to tell about ourselves.
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Ignite, Launch, Dock : a Hitchhikers Guide to the Space Industry
Space as a vertical is as a bit of a dark horse. In racing parlance, that’s a term for a horse that is unknown to gamblers and thus difficult to establish betting odds for.
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Things I Didn’t Know About the Space Industry
Call it NewSpace or call it what you want. However we label it, it’s exciting!
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Evidence Piling Up : Ketogenic Diet Effective Against Brain Tumors
Anecdotal evidence keep piling up to suggest that Ketogenic diet might be effective at battling brain tumors.