Could partition dependence bias help save us from Brad and Chad?
We don’t do very well at combating bias during hiring, but maybe if we find the right mix of science, strategy, and execution … we could? Continue Reading
Science
Humans and Neanderthals may have overlapped in Europe for 5,400 years
These numbers are way different than what we thought earlier, and speaks to the idea of interbreeding. Continue Reading
Could Amy Cuddy, Microsoft Kinect, and the NYU Game Innovation Lab help eliminate “math anxiety?”
Remember that TED Talk about body language? (Funny sidebar: I had a class last spring in graduate school where the teacher cancelled the class, or just failed to show up, about 8 times in a class that only met 16… Continue Reading
US2020, promoting STEM mentorship, sees seven cities rise (Philly, Raleigh, Chicago, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Allentown, Wichita)
I’ve written a lot about the future of U.S. cities on this blog, and there are numerous theories as to how a city rises up in the modern era. It’s hard to argue with this fact, though: the twin engines… Continue Reading
Bristol-Meyers Squibb is apparently the best health care company at research and development
The cost of creating a new drug for a pharma company is somewhere around $5 billion right now, and often takes 10 years or more. If someone approached your company and told you, “We want to take 5 billion dollars… Continue Reading
The Templeton Rye Pork Project is about making your bacon taste like whiskey. Good idea, or awful execution of science?
Here’s the deal. You can essentially request a pig that will taste like whiskey because of a process whereby they eat the dry distillery grain during the raising process. It’s all overseen by Nick Berry from Iowa State University and only features 25 pigs. Via… Continue Reading
Brief thought exercise: have you ever stopped and realized that the reason you’re not a chimp is 1/50th of your DNA?
I read Guns, Germs and Steel on the first intercontinental flight I ever took (which sadly didn’t happen until I was 28), and while that’s maybe not the best flying-over-the-Atlantic reading material, it was pretty captivating (it has sold millions of copies). I came… Continue Reading
If we can extend the length of human telomeres, can we basically end the era of humans dying?
That’s a trailer for a movie that was accepted into South x Southwest this year called The Immortalists. You can read more about it here, but essentially the film follows two guys — not exactly or really scientists, per se —… Continue Reading