Tesla, schools, mimetics, bionic eyes, Facebook, coding, tornadoes, and cork harvesting.Β Β The Daily Reads are presented in collaboration with FREEDOM TODAY JOURNAL. Subscribe here to get them in your inbox every morning.Β
TRANSPORTATION β 5 reasons Elon Musk is the Donald Trump of e-mobility β Daniel Fallenstein on ftn.media: The Tesla CEO is a lot like the American president.
EDUCATION β Cut costs, not corners β James Tooley on capx.co: βIf it works in Sierra Leone, couldn’t it work in the UK?β
HUMANITY β Biblical β George Gallatin on quillette.com: βTodayβs frenzied politics are a direct result of malfunctioning mimesis systems. Additionally, these systems are the most broken for the youngest cohort of society. β
HEALTH β Computer vision β Emily Waltz on spectrum.ieee.org: βVisual prosthesis to be implanted in five patients with retinal disease.β
TECHNOLOGY β Marc Scapegoatberg β Tyler Cowen on bloomberg.com: βI am worried that the exaggerated rancor against Facebook will become an excuse to renege on principles of free speech.β
INNOVATION β Efficency gains β Larry Hardesty on futurism.com: βNew code offers a 100-fold speed increase. The system is called Taco, for tensor algebra compiler.β
NATURE β Dark skies β Brantley Hargrove on wired.com: βSupertornado simulations just might be the breakthrough needed to figure out how the worldβs worst twisters work.β
CULTURE β Corked β aeon.co: βA hugely satisfying portrait of production, this short documentary observes workers in Spainβs La Mancha region as they harvest cork from a quercus suber (commonly known as a cork oak).β
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