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Disruptive innovations in energy, transportation, AI, labor, robotics, food and agriculture, materials, health, the environment, education, geopolitics, etc.

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A technique of tracking how forecasts change over time, in this case for the International Energy Agency's 'World Energy Outlook' forecast of total installed solar photovoltaic capacity, to get a better forecast than any individual forecast could provide

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The EVERY Company announces agreement with Huvepharma to quadruple production capacity to meet high demand for its flagship product, OvoPro™, the world’s first commercially available egg protein made via precision fermentation

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The low-spiciness TAM Jalapeño-1 pepper turned Mexican salsa into a beloved American staple over just a couple of decades by enabling "base plus" manufacturing or "late-stage differentiation"

The same idea is used in a wide variety of products

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Using Claude’s Fable 5 and Google’s NotebookLM to visualize all of the locations mentioned in Mark Kurlansky’s 2002 book ‘Salt: A World History’ and to see the key relations to food, energy, and mining

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When a new technology makes threshing rice ten times more efficient, it can put a lot of elderly women out of work, or it can make life better for us all. Which way it turns out is our choice

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If you were buying a clock in the US in 1800, you were likely buying a tall, expensive, case clock. But by using water power to mechanize production, Eli Terry began making mantle clocks at low price, and this new clock style quickly became widely adopted

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Before the rise of Silicon Valley in California, the city in the US with the most millionaires per capita was Dalton, Georgia, the epicenter of tufted carpeting. And it was all started by one little girl who wanted to make a gift for her brother’s wedding

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When a new technology makes threshing rice ten times more efficient, it can put a lot of elderly women out of work, or it can make life better for us all. Which way it turns out is our choice

https://t.co/29gPKsswSs

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In 1962, Eigil Nielsen created the common 32-panel football design. He named it the Telstar, after the communications satellite that had been launched that year. Within twelve years, this football design was the standard for use at the World Cup

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Changing the tools and techniques we use for decorating pottery changed not only the style of the decoration, but also where pottery was produced, and what the decorations depicted

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Horses Circumnavigated the Earth Before People Did

When horses were introduced to the Americas in 1493, they collectively had circumnavigated all the way around the Earth while the two branches of humanity had each only gone about halfway

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Are there energy-poor countries that are prosperous, or do energy use and prosperity go hand-in-hand? A quick analysis by Bradd Libby (@bradd_libby) of data from Our World in Data...

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In this video, @bradd_libby shows off a simple technique called 'Watch the Delta', which uses a forecaster's prior forecasts to estimate their future forecasts

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