by Warp Institute | Dec 17, 2020 | Op-Ed, 🥇 Optimist's Edge
There it is, again. I’ve read this short sentence more times during the last three years than the previous 40 of my life: it’s too good to be true.No matter if we write about decrease in child mortality or that AI helps us detect Alzheimer’s earlier,...
by Warp Institute | Dec 16, 2020 | 🛰 Space
Lunar sample-return missions return from the history books as China’s Chang’e-5 mission brings new material of lunar soil to Earth for the first time since the 1970’s. The previous mission to have done the same was the Soviet mission Luna 24 in 1976. The new sample...
by Warp Institute | Dec 16, 2020 | ✍🏼 Essays, 🌟 Premium Content
One Billion AmericansMatthew Yglesias is one of the founders of Vox, a left-of-center news site. He is out with a new book, One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger. The inspiration for the book Yglesias found north of the border, Maximum Canada: Why 35...
by Warp Institute | Dec 16, 2020 | 🛰 Space
The Japanese did it again! The JAXA spacecraft Hayabusa2 successfully brought home a sample from the near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu. As the sample return capsule was opened this week, it revealed plenty of dark dust and some gases inside. JAXA scientists are now...
by Warp Institute | Dec 15, 2020 | 🍔 Food Tech
15 harvests per year, that is what the Danish company Nordic Harvest is aiming for when they are now building Europe’s largest vertical cultivation in Taastrup just outside Copenhagen. By stacking the crops at a height of 14 levels, the plant will be able to...
