From grass-fed to electricity-fed — When our ancestors first started to eat meat two million years ago, they didn’t do it out of pleasure. Earth was too hot for vegetation to grow, leaving survivors with only one option: the rotten animal bodies they found lying across the savanna. It was ugly but necessary. Then came…

Some will scare you, most will blow your mind — “The future is already here,” William Gibson once wrote. “It’s just not evenly distributed.” Some of you, dear readers, might live well into your 150s — and even keep your brains and curves till the very end. Not bad, eh? Wait until you discover that your granddaughter could spend her…

Converting death rays into electricity — Some 2,200 years ago, the Roman Empire decided to take over Sicily, an island located in modern-day Italy. It was a strategic move against the Carthaginians, whose influence spread over the Mediterranean basin. The invasion was supposed to be a picnic for Rome’s well-trained soldiers. What they didn’t expect was…

Intensity beats volume in this line of work — The way cows “work” is by chewing grass from dawn to dusk. It’s how they grow strong, conceive healthy calves, and produce quality milk. It’s also how the industrial age thought of productivity. Factory workers clock in at 9 and out at 5, and all they do in between is…

Life is too short to let a tyrant steal it away — His name is Bill and he’s about my age. I hired him shortly after quitting my corporate job to start an online business. “We’ll mainly create content,” I told him. “We’ll also do consulting in tech and decision-making.” Bill loved the idea and immediately signed the contract. What he didn’t…

The implications go far beyond the city — “I’m going to take my first THREE paychecks in Bitcoin when I become mayor,” Eric Adams said. “In New York we always go big.” Adams is a former police captain who won over the majority of voters thanks to his commitment to fight crime and revive the economy. He intends…

It’s a reminder of a growing threat to our future in space — Earlier this month, a Russian satellite called Kosmos 1408 exploded, resulting in a cloud of debris that endangered the International Space Station (ISS) and the safety of its seven astronauts. The explosion was no accident. The Russian military destroyed Kosmos 1408 using an anti-satellite missile fired from the ground. Upon…

The company plans to shutter its long-criticized technology — In January 2019, millions of Facebook users posted before-and-after pictures of themselves under the hashtag “10YearsChallenge.” The idea was to score social media points by showing how the passage of time changed your looks. It was all fun (5.2 million impressions in under three days) until a techie theorized there…

Your DNA will soon be on file, if it’s not already. What will the consequences be? — In 2011, historian Yuval Noah Harari predicted that algorithms will at some point “know us better than we know ourselves.” On many digital platforms, this is already happening. When you scroll through YouTube, TikTok, or Facebook, you don’t have to worry about what you want to watch next. Heck, you…