It’s not the only faux meat company selling bloody plant patties. Last month, Los Angeles-based Beyond Meat made headlines when it released the Beyond Burger
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Beyond Meat’s investors include Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Gates is also backing Impossible Foods.
Source: Silicon Valley’s Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes And Sizzles Like Meat : The Salt : NPR
In the days of valve radios, it was a standard rite of passage for 10 year olds to take them apart and find out how they worked. The likes of Richard Feynman, Claude Shannon, and Robert Noyce all started that way. Good luck taking the back off an iPhone, kids—but the whole path from simple radio receivers to megabit interplanetary communication is still there. Amateur radio will take you every step, bypassing barriers and making connections. There’s a reason ham radio is aboard the International Space Station.
Source: When everything else fails, amateur radio will still be there—and thriving | Ars Technica
How many people could define the term?
When it is possible to speak of genetically engineered crops as a broad category, it’s of about as much use as reporting that cars are safe, or that pets are safe. Both of those things are generally true, but the statements are so expansive as to be meaningless. (And there are enormous caveats.)
The National Academy of Sciences is urging people to focus less on the process and more on the product.
An explanation of the oxygen paleothermometer.
Source: Corkboard of Curiosities – Paleo Climate
In the wake of recent climate change discussions, we decided to talk about how scientists study the climates of yore.
Source: The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality | Quanta Magazine
The cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman believes that evolution and quantum mechanics conspire to make objective reality an illusion.
it’s a logical flaw to think that if we have to take it seriously, we also have to take it literally
this is a far more radical claim about the nature of reality