South China Morning Post: Son’s asthma set dad on a mission to tackle Hong Kong air pollution. https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3115228/how-sons-asthma-diagnosis-set-dad-mission-find-its-cause
As humans squander the Earth’s resources and throw away unwanted goods, meet the companies and communities offering ways of transforming waste back into reusable products
Source: These photos prove a future with no waste is possible | WIRED UK
The diaspora of tech talent is apparent in towns around the Rockies, where wealth and business activity are rising, along with property prices and wage competition.
Source: Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Valley With Them – WSJ
Bloomberg measured vaccine access, lockdowns disruption and mortality rates
Source: Coronavirus Pandemic: Ranking The Best, Worst Places to Be
the5krunner: Sleep Accuracy: Garmin loses, Fitbit wins in scientific study. https://the5krunner.com/2020/10/31/sleep-accuracy-garmin-loses-fitbit-wins-in-scientific-study/
The pandemic’s impact on small business has been deep, but Inc.’s Arnobio Morelix predicts a startup renaissance is around the corner.
Source: Cities and Startups Are Poised for a ‘Great Reboot’ | Inc.com
Tasso’s simple plastic device is enabling everything from drug trials to disease monitoring, at the push of a button.
Source: How Tasso’s Simple At-Home Blood Tests Could Reimagine Telemedicine | Inc.com
In the next 10 years, key technologies will converge to completely disrupt the five foundational sectors—information, energy, food, transportation, and materials—that underpin our global economy. We need to make sure the disruption benefits everyone.
Source: We are approaching the most consequential technological disruption in
In an August report in the journal Cell, Fauci and medical historian David Morens, his National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) colleague, foresee an accelerating rate of pandemics in the years ahead driven largely by deforestation, urban crowding, and wet markets for wild game, which will make increasing environmental degradation worldwide in this century, “the key determinant of disease emergence.”
“A deadly barrage” of pandemics is coming, a new report warns.
Source: COVID-19 Might Just Be The First Big Pandemic Of This Century
