macroeflipped into Eye OpenersBirdwatching From math-based knitting to birding, these scientists have melded passion with their professions verified_publisherPopular Science - Ellen Airhart, Claire Maldarelli, and Marion RenaultHow to bring extracurriculars into the office. Popular Science’s Play issue is now available to everyone. Read it now, no app or credit card required. The average person spends some 90,000 hours at work...
macroeflipped into Eye OpenersPawpaw The Promise of Pawpaw verified_publisherThe New York Times - Rachel WhartonPHILADELPHIA — The new pawpaw patch at the Woodlands, a sprawling historic property along the Schuylkill, still isn’t much to look at. But just give those trees time, said Alkebu-Lan Marcus, the farmer...
macroeflipped into Eye OpenersPfizer One doctor’s campaign to stop a covid-19 vaccine being rushed through before Election Day MIT Technology Review - Antonio Regalado After being released from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 5, US President Donald Trump praised the doctors who treated him …
macroeflipped into Eye OpenersAsteroids Touch, go: NASA prepares for spacecraft’s 10-second grab from asteroid verified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Associated PressAfter almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft is ready to attempt a descent to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface so it can snatch a handful...
macroeflipped into Eye OpenersContact Tracing When senior citizens are the early adopters verified_publisherThe Verge - Nicole WetsmanSteve Kasch’s mom, Julia, was always worried about losing her keys. “She wasn’t even driving, but she was checking her purse every ten minutes,” he says. Kasch told me that his mom was fairly independent,...
macroeflipped into Eye OpenersFoxconn Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin verified_publisherThe Verge - Josh DziezaHopes were high among the employees who joined Foxconn’s Wisconsin project in the summer of 2018. In June, President Donald Trump had broken ground on an LCD factory he called “the eighth wonder of the...