According to a recent study published in Science, you can take a female rhesus monkey (or “macaque”), put her in a terrarium, then gradually add more monkeys over time, the one who was there first will then generally have the highest social status while the newcomers will have lower status—much like in Norbert Elias’ and […]
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What is the best way to think about knowledge? This series will help you get clear on reality and how humans know about it.
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I have a younger relative who lives with schizophrenia (unfortunately not the first or only case in the family). If he doesn’t take heavy medications he can hear voices, hallucinate and easily get overwhelmed. His medication makes him tired and leaves him with a short attention span, so it’s difficult for him to work within
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At the heart of our work at RethinkX are cost curves. They are much more than a visual tool for understanding the exponential fall in costs, they are a roadmap to explaining how disruption happens. In the case of precision fermentation (PF), each step down the cost curve has opened up the cost competitiveness for
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A brief summary of seven major approaches to grounding our deepest claims about what is true.
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There is a major disruption coming to the food system, one that is well detailed in our report Rethinking Food and Agriculture. In the report, we identify the core disruptive technology over the next 10 years to be precision fermentation (PF). The regulation of PF is key to shaping the disruption. Regulation and the food
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The Unified Theory of Knowledge (UTOK) consists of eight key ideas represented by a Tree in a Garden. It offers a 21st Century vision of how we might orient toward wisdom.
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This first and most obvious form of inequality in our days revolves around income, wealth and access to material resources; the ability to acquire goods and services from others. Because material wealth has long been the main focus of struggles for equality, it merits less discussion here. It is, of course, no less important. For
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Today, we are on the cusp of multiple disruptions in food and materials. So why now? In a previous blog we discussed how precision fermentation (PF) has been around for 40 years. We know this because we can pinpoint the first product commercialized from PF – human insulin. Human insulin is an illustrative example of
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“Claire and I listened to Jeff’s latest podcast on Sunday and it was a breath of fresh air. Highly recommended if you’re upset by the current culture wars. (if you’re not, are you still alive?) Yes, Jeff uses some integral jargon from time to time but I think anyone will appreciate his view from 10,000
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