Y’all, we’re doing it. We’re cleaning up the atmosphere!! Honored to be in Iceland for the launch of Mammoth — the world’s largest DAC facility led by Climeworks in partnership with Carbfix storage. It will capture more than 30k tons of CO2/yr, a critical step for the industry

This is such an annoying bit that I’m choosing to believe it’s a weirdo kabuki takedown of the excesses of popularism (“… oh, moderates should talk up only popular positions? How about I scaremonger and kneecap the early development of an interesting and important technology!”)

What's the most impressive thing—tool, medicine, product—that's been built so far using AlphaFold technology?

What's the most impressive thing—tool, medicine, product—that's been built so far using AlphaFold technology?

My piece today is about the relationship between bureaucratic bloat and “mission creep” at colleges, which I think is part of a broader phenomenon.

But John is right that for a full accounting of why trust in colleges has declined, special attention should be paid to elite…

While watching the campus protests and thinking about value of being able to communicate institutional focus to your stakeholders—we’re a college; this is what we’re for; this is what we can’t accept—I’ve weirdly found myself thinking about … the Fed.

The Fed famously has a…

Why is trust in US institutions—esp colleges—collapsing?

Here’s a theory. The 21st c has became the age of the unfocused institution—the age of mission inflation, goal ambiguity, and complex orgs losing any clear sense of priority, or identity.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Are we inching closer to the world 'The Jetsons' promised?

Derek Thompson and writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus unpack the technological barriers preventing flying cars from soaring in our skies.

open.spotify.com/episode/4EXS4e…

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.⁦CRFB.org⁩: all recent student debt cancellation policies will cost a combined $870B-$1.4T. That’s more than all federal spending on higher ed over the nation’s entire history. Most of debt cancellation was thru executive actions under Biden. crfb.org/blogs/total-co…

btw, this is the thing that makes beer

Reminder: decarbonization is fundamentally a challenge of investment.

We need to utilize every policy lever to ensure the environment is ripe for investment.

Glioblastoma is a kind of brain cancer that until now has been a swift death sentence.

In a trial in human patients, a therapeutic mRNA vaccine appears to work!

insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/oncolog…

this is mesmerizing

Take the time and listen to this episode of Plain English podcast. Derek, who I don’t always agree with, asks great and fair questions and dives deep in to what is going on right now in the Israel Gaza war.