Author: timbatchelder

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

Even though protective masks have become more common, transparent versions that make lip-reading possible aren’t in widespread use in hospitals, schools, or big-box stores.

Source: Why Haven’t Clear Face Masks Caught On Yet?

By 2050, 70% of the world’s population is expected to live in towns and cities.

Source: Biodiversity loss could be making us sick – here’s why

Microsoft Excel: 1 — Human Genetics: 0.

Source: Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates – The Verge

Preston Estep was alone in a borrowed laboratory, somewhere in Boston. No big company, no board meetings, no billion-dollar payout from Operation Warp Speed, the US government’s covid-19 vaccine funding program. No animal data. No ethics approval. What he did have: ingredients for a vaccine. And one willing volunteer. Estep swirled together the mixture and…

Source: Some scientists are taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine, and nobody knows if it’s legal or if it works | MIT Technology Review

The red maple is the only known natural source of compounds, called ginnalins

Source: A promising Alzheimer’s treatment comes from the red maple tree