General Purpose Blog

What's that? You wanted to read about science, productivity, and personal finance at the same time? Well, you've found the right place!

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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 [Michio Kaku] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Space elevators. Internet-enabled contact lenses. Cars that fly by floating on magnetic fields. This is the stuff of science fiction—it’s also daily life in the year 2100. Renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku details the developments in computer technology

My amazing girlfriend just gave me this book! Can’t wait to read about the future!  Should I read it wearing my Back to the Future 2015 hat?

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Major Gaps Between the Public, Scientists on Key Issues

Despite broadly similar views about the overall place of science in America, there are striking differences between the public and scientists’ views on a host of science-related issues, from whether genetically modified foods are safe to eat to whether the world's growing population will be a major problem.

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Creating bacterial ‘fight clubs’ to discover new drugs

Chemists Brian Bachmann and John McLean have shown that creating bacterial

Sounds interesting!  I’ll take any way we can generate new antibiotics...

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Derek Sivers home, blog, projects

This guy seems pretty smart.  These are notes and his personal rating on books he’s read.  I’ve read a few on the list, so it might be a good place to find new reads!

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A guaranteed basic income can lead to more creative, fulfilling work. The question is how to fund it.

Something we need to think about for the future...

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How to make better to-do lists

List management doesn’t really sound sexy, but it’s an important skill if you want to achieve your goals and bring in at least some order into our chaotic lives.

My stubborn mind finally let me start using to-do lists, when this article popped up.  Great timing!

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Taaluma Totes || Backpacks that Carry a Country || Shark Tank Feb 20

Just bought a Taaluma Tote.  They have an interesting model where they source the material from a country, manufacture here in the US, and use some of the profits to provide micro loans via Kiva in the original country.  Can’t wait to get totin’!

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How bacteria "talk"

So this isn’t new, but this is a TED Talk by Bonnie Bassler about bacterial quorum sensing.  It’s related to my own research and, frankly, fascinating.

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Top Tips For Writing a Blog Post in 30 Minutes

Some good tips for writing on a tight schedule from Lifehacker.  I’ll definitely have to look at these again later when I really get my blog up and running!

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Read this post today on Budgets Are Sexy.  This Acorns app seems like a really cool idea: an easy way to start investing in a taxable account, even if you can’t put together a large minimum investment!

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Start Young, Get Rich with Compound Interest

Saw this article linked over at Rockstar Finance.  The power of compounding is truly magical.