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• Zaid Khan

  

  The mathematically correct way to tie your shoes

  bigthink.com - Ethan Siegel

  Math can explain why your laces spontaneously come untied — and how to stop it. One of the major milestones of our early childhoods comes when we …

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  Forget olive oil. This new cooking oil is made using fermentation and requires 99% less water to produce

  Fast Company - Elissaveta M. Brandon

  The world runs on vegetable oil. It’s the third-most-consumed food globally after rice and wheat. It’s in your morning croissant and your oat milk, your salad dressing, your afternoon snack bar, and your midnight cookie. Our obsession with vegetable oil is so big that we use more land—around 20% to …

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  Cognitive Biases: Three Common Types Illustrated

  visualcapitalist.com - Jono Hey

  In a world of information overload, we can fall victim to all sorts of cognitive biases. Since they can lead us to generate false conclusions, it’s …

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  This California company wants to make modern AC obsolete

  Popular Science - Andrew Zaleski

  Nanoscience dusts off a quirk of physics to optimize air conditioning. Can it help save the planet too? THEY LOOK LIKE MIRRORS: 32 rectangles neatly arranged in eight rows on the rooftop of a supermarket called Grocery Outlet in Stockton, California. Shimmering beneath a bright sky, at first glance …

• https://fortune.com/2020/03/21/italy-ventilator-maker-siare-engineering-coronavirus-prime-minister/

  Zaid Khan

  Mar 22, 2020
• Zaid Khan

  

  Vale Nicola Materazzi: Father of the F40 dies

  whichcar.com.au - Massimo Delbo

  Wheels is saddened to learn of the passing of Nicola Materazzi, father of both the legendary Ferrari F40 and the 288 GTO before it, at the age of …