MailChimp and the Un-Silicon Valley Way to Make It as a Start-Up.
No venture capital, no Bay Area presence, no crazy burn rate: MailChimp’s founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers’ needs and following their instincts.
You Might Have Earned It, But Don't Forget That Your Wealth Came from Society.
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What Chinese corner-cutting reveals about modernity.
Your balcony fell off? Chabuduo. Vaccines are overheated? Chabuduo.
Dark matter faces its biggest challenge of all.
A correlation between normal matter and the observed rotation suggests that maybe dark matter isn’t a certainty, after all.
Nothing in the standard cosmological model predicts this, and it is almost impossible to imagine how that model could be modified to explain it, without discarding the dark matter hypothesis completely.
The Hive is the New Network.
Even though some social networks have grown to include billions of people, the ramp up in communication hasn’t increased proportionally. Even as you add friends or follow users, you can only talk to so many. Facebook users with over 500 friends only actively communicate with between 10 to 20 people. Similarly, Twitter users who have follower counts of over 1,000 share strong ties with fewer than 50 of their followers.
Liquid assets: how the business of bottled water went mad.
How did a substance that falls from the air, springs from the earth and comes out of your tap become a hyperactive multibillion-dollar business?
A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors. The results are concerning.
Statcheck is a program that automatically detects errors in psychology papers.
Why we urgently need to measure AI’s societal impacts.
Artificial intelligence is hard to see.
You don’t have to be stupid to work here, but it helps.
How organisations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door.
An umbrella which opens from the inside, so you don’t suffer any wet moments.
Suprella is sealed with a special Hightech-Nano-coating so that rain is just rolling off. It stays dry, all the time!
