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Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - February 4th, 2018
Cloning primates … What could go wrong? Here are some of the posts that caught my eye recently. Hope you find something interesting. Lighter Links: U.S. Soldiers are Revealing Sensitive and Dangerous Information by Jogging. (WashPo) Billionaire Saudi Prince, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Freed from Detention. (New York Times) Science You Might Have Missed in
Scientists Have Just Cloned Monkeys
Do you remember Dolly the Sheep? She was the first mammal cloned "from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer." Dolly was cloned from a mammary gland and was named after Dolly Parton … for obvious reasons. Since then, many other large mammals were cloned, including pigs and horses. TIME via Youtube
Super Bowl Tickets
Guys I know it's late notice, but a friend of mine has two tickets for the Super Bowl in Minneapolis, MN at the new U. S. Bank Stadium on Sunday, February 4th. They are box seats and he paid $3,500 per ticket, which includes the ride to and from the airport, lunch, dinner, a $400.00
Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - January 28th, 2018
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye recently. Hope you find something interesting. Lighter Links: Trump Reportedly Uses an Indian Accent to Mimic Modi at Meetings. (Quartz) Statistician is One of the Fastest-growing Jobs for the Future. (Qz) Compare Your Fears against Reality. (FlowingData) Vladimir Putin Takes Dip in Freezing Water
What Does The Average NBA Player Look Like?
Each sport has a different ratio of ethnicities. You might expect more Pacific Islanders in Rugby or Caucasians in Golf. So what happens when you average the top players' faces in various sports? As you might expect, you get very different results depending on the sport. See what I mean? osmutiar via Reddit Not
Which Industries are Prime for Disruption?
Last year, I talked with the CEO of CB Insights about how Fintech was disrupting the value chain of financial services. Since then, it's become even easier to see how disruptors are changing every industry, and becoming leaders in their fields. via McKinsey Companies like Lyft, Tesla, and Netflix changed paradigms and are now