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