Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Poor Oregonians
From the Huffington Post -
Internet Trolls Oregonians After Self-Serve Gas Law Takes Effect
“Apparently there’s an entire state of people in America who are incapable of filling their own car with petrol.”
By David Lohr
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oregon-self-serve-gas-law-comments_us_5a4bafdde4b0b0e5a7a8dab5?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Internet Trolls Oregonians After Self-Serve Gas Law Takes Effect
“Apparently there’s an entire state of people in America who are incapable of filling their own car with petrol.”
By David Lohr
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oregon-self-serve-gas-law-comments_us_5a4bafdde4b0b0e5a7a8dab5?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Fixing "Oh Sh*t"
An excerpt from OZY -
HIT 'SEND' TOO FAST? THIS ENTREPRENEUR HAS A FIX FOR THAT
By Lisa Rabasca Roepe
Maci Peterson knows too well the potentially disastrous consequences of sending a text to the wrong person or firing off an email whose meaning gets lost in transit. When autocorrect altered a text she sent to her then boyfriend — and she couldn’t figure out how to retrieve it — she set her sights on solving a universal problem.
Her solution was the basis for On Second Thought, a Silicon Valley company Peterson founded in 2014, after winning the #StartupOasis pitch competition at South by Southwest. Initially, it was the only company offering a texting app that allows users to recall messages before they get delivered. Since then, a number of competitors have cropped up, including RakEM and unSend.it.
http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/hit-send-too-fast-this-entrepreneur-has-a-fix-for-that/81126?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=01032018&variable=e3bf1057d4e3c0988a79ae4bce515610
HIT 'SEND' TOO FAST? THIS ENTREPRENEUR HAS A FIX FOR THAT
By Lisa Rabasca Roepe
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| Maci Peterson |
Maci Peterson knows too well the potentially disastrous consequences of sending a text to the wrong person or firing off an email whose meaning gets lost in transit. When autocorrect altered a text she sent to her then boyfriend — and she couldn’t figure out how to retrieve it — she set her sights on solving a universal problem.
Her solution was the basis for On Second Thought, a Silicon Valley company Peterson founded in 2014, after winning the #StartupOasis pitch competition at South by Southwest. Initially, it was the only company offering a texting app that allows users to recall messages before they get delivered. Since then, a number of competitors have cropped up, including RakEM and unSend.it.
http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/hit-send-too-fast-this-entrepreneur-has-a-fix-for-that/81126?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=01032018&variable=e3bf1057d4e3c0988a79ae4bce515610
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
The Secret Chinese Restaurant in Madrid
An excerpt from OZY -
THE SECRET CHINESE RESTAURANT IN AN UNDERGROUND CAR PARK IN MADRID
By Melissa Kitson
Good Chinese can be hard to find in any city. In Madrid, it’s extra difficult. You don’t just need to know the place; you need to know how to find it. For example, Zhou Yulong — widely considered to be Madrid’s best Chinese restaurant — is hidden in an underground car park in the city’s center.
But don’t think about asking for directions. No one calls the restaurant by its name. Instead it’s known as el chino secreto, el chino subterráneo or even the Blade Runner restaurant. It’s best to go with a regular; otherwise the instructions are a little confusing, like: Follow the dingy staircase to a dingy corridor. Walk past the entrance to the car park. There, opposite the industrial lift, you’ll see Zhou Yulong.
http://www.ozy.com/good-sht/the-secret-chinese-restaurant-in-an-underground-car-park-in-madrid/82383?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=01022018&variable=e3bf1057d4e3c0988a79ae4bce515610
THE SECRET CHINESE RESTAURANT IN AN UNDERGROUND CAR PARK IN MADRID
By Melissa Kitson
Good Chinese can be hard to find in any city. In Madrid, it’s extra difficult. You don’t just need to know the place; you need to know how to find it. For example, Zhou Yulong — widely considered to be Madrid’s best Chinese restaurant — is hidden in an underground car park in the city’s center.
But don’t think about asking for directions. No one calls the restaurant by its name. Instead it’s known as el chino secreto, el chino subterráneo or even the Blade Runner restaurant. It’s best to go with a regular; otherwise the instructions are a little confusing, like: Follow the dingy staircase to a dingy corridor. Walk past the entrance to the car park. There, opposite the industrial lift, you’ll see Zhou Yulong.
http://www.ozy.com/good-sht/the-secret-chinese-restaurant-in-an-underground-car-park-in-madrid/82383?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=01022018&variable=e3bf1057d4e3c0988a79ae4bce515610
Cutting Edge Biochemist
An excerpt from OZY -
CAN THIS BIOCHEMIST BYPASS ORGAN DONORS?
By Tafline Laylin
I follow Kevin Dzobo to the cafeteria at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine at the University of Cape Town, where his young son, Kevin Jr., sits absorbed in his tablet. They both seem eager to get on with their Saturday, yet the stem cell researcher patiently indulges my questions about his work in regenerative medicine. Dzobo, one of 16 emergent African scientists to be awarded the prestigious Next Einstein Forum fellowship for 2017–19, is chipping away at potentially groundbreaking medical research that could one day give humans what the humble salamander already has: the ability to regenerate their own tissue and organs.
Dzobo, 42, detours from discussing the details of his work to mention the nearby Groote Schuur Hospital — the site, in 1967, of a stunning advancement in human medicine when Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant. Yet barriers to organ transplantation remain, says Dzobo, like locating a donor or a match. “What we’re trying to do is come up with ways to find this endless supply of organs and tissue,” explains the senior research scientist with the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology and lecturer at UCT’s Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences.
http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/can-this-biochemist-bypass-organ-donors/81979?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=01022018&variable=e3bf1057d4e3c0988a79ae4bce515610
CAN THIS BIOCHEMIST BYPASS ORGAN DONORS?
By Tafline Laylin
I follow Kevin Dzobo to the cafeteria at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine at the University of Cape Town, where his young son, Kevin Jr., sits absorbed in his tablet. They both seem eager to get on with their Saturday, yet the stem cell researcher patiently indulges my questions about his work in regenerative medicine. Dzobo, one of 16 emergent African scientists to be awarded the prestigious Next Einstein Forum fellowship for 2017–19, is chipping away at potentially groundbreaking medical research that could one day give humans what the humble salamander already has: the ability to regenerate their own tissue and organs.
Dzobo, 42, detours from discussing the details of his work to mention the nearby Groote Schuur Hospital — the site, in 1967, of a stunning advancement in human medicine when Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant. Yet barriers to organ transplantation remain, says Dzobo, like locating a donor or a match. “What we’re trying to do is come up with ways to find this endless supply of organs and tissue,” explains the senior research scientist with the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology and lecturer at UCT’s Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences.
http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/can-this-biochemist-bypass-organ-donors/81979?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=01022018&variable=e3bf1057d4e3c0988a79ae4bce515610
Monday, January 1, 2018
Best Pancakes
From Buzzfeed -
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jesseszewczyk/best-pancake-recipe?utm_term=.scGnpMXPk#.cxY0A4OBd
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jesseszewczyk/best-pancake-recipe?utm_term=.scGnpMXPk#.cxY0A4OBd
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