AI Helps Researchers Dig Through Old Maps to Find Lost Oil and Gas Wells
Undocumented orphaned wells pose hazards to both the environment and the climate. Scientists are building modern tools to help locate, assess, and pave the way for ultimately plugging these forgotten relics.
Japan: Early career setbacks reduce marriage and birth rates
A CSRDA Discussion Paper (Long-term Consequences of Early Career Disadvantages on Fertility: Evidence from Japan by Manting Chen) finds that men in Japan who start their careers in non-standard employment, such as temporary or contract work, face a major disadvantage when it comes to getting married and having children later in life compared to those who land stable jobs right out of school.
This year I took a sabbatical, recorded a podcast with Freakonomics, designed and shipped a tiny modular synthesiser, and learned many learnings. Tom Whitwell designs open source music electronics as…
Belgium becomes first country to give sex workers robust labor rights and protections
The new law guarantees fundamental rights for sex workers, including the ability to refuse clients, set the conditions of an act, and stop an act at any moment.
How communities without one can build a local library
That’s what Charlie Schweik and friends will be talking about in the next salon in the Beyond the Web series at Indiana University, hosted by the Ostrom Workshop and the Hamilton Lugar School…
'We never left': How federal funding will help this Westmoreland County chipmaker keep the power on
The semiconductor chips coming out of a nondescript fabricator in Youngwood used to be so sensitive that soldiers would rather destroy the computer system...
I really like today's essay and I think you will too! Corey Atad writes about the 1995 David Fincher film Se7en, the fraught decision to have children or not in times like these, and whether the world is still worth fighting for.
"It’s said that Fincher wanted the film
Because irony is dead, a Dutch tulip farmer is heating their greenhouse with Bitcoin mining: The servers in turn are powered by solar energy from the roof, reducing the normally huge electricity costs for mining, and cutting its potential impact on the environment. Because the most efficient way to run a solar powered greenhouse is to use GPUs as electric heaters. Seems legit. By reducing ...
Uber & Lyft Earnings Under Pressure from Waymo, Robotaxis. (Business Insider) Waymo’s robotaxis are undercutting Uber and Lyft prices in Phoenix while matching quality. It’s no long…
How queuing for stuff became just as important as buying it
In 2024, the almighty queue became a signifier of cool in and of itself – a palatable, scene-y symbol of consumerism, whether you're queuing for pints, burgers or clothes. Nowhere is that more apparent than at fashion sample sales. Get in line…
The Problem With AI Is About Power, Not Technology
Artificial intelligence has the potential to seriously harm workers — not because of something inherent to the technology, but because bosses are in control of it.
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