A PhD in economics is the only one worth getting
Noah Smith, qz.comPeople often ask me: “Noah, what career path can I take where I’m virtually guaranteed to get a well-paying job in my field of interest, which doesn’t force me to work 80 hours a week, and which gives me both autonomy and intellectual…
Glowing “Avatar-Like” Trees Will Light Our Future
“Hoping to give new meaning to the term “natural light,” a small group of biotechnology hobbyists and entrepreneurs has started a project to develop plants that glow, potentially leading the way for trees that can replace electric streetlamps and potted flowers luminous enough to read by.
The project, which will use a sophisticated form of genetic engineering called synthetic biology, is attracting attention not only for its audacious goal, but for how it is being carried out.
Rather than being the work of a corporation or an academic laboratory, it will be done by a small group of hobbyist scientists in one of the growing number of communal laboratories springing up around the nation as biotechnology becomes cheap enough to give rise to a do-it-yourself movement.
The project is also being financed in a D.I.Y. sort of way: It has attracted more than $250,000 in pledges from about 4,500 donors in about two weeks on the Web site Kickstarter. (via A Dream of Glowing Trees Is Assailed for Gene-Tinkering - NYTimes.com)”
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Today in Manhood: Turkey Now Offering Mustache Implants
But can you get a mustache transplant from someone else?
Major Exchange Admits High Speed Traders Are Exploiting A Loophole In Their Computer Systems
Linette Lopez, businessinsider.comThe Wall Street Journal reports that high speed traders are exploiting a hidden loophole in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) computer systems, and that the CME has had knowledge that they are profiting from it.
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