Here are a few reads that I enjoyed this year on a variety of topics (tech, business, environment, society, etc) including articles, blog posts and longer more in-depth reads. Hope you’ll find them interesting too!
Tech & Business
AI-Powered Biotech Can Help Deploy a Vaccine In Record Time: The magnitude of the Covid-19 pandemic will largely depend on how quickly safe and effective vaccines and treatments…
Tech Workers Are Living the American Dream-in Canada: Nitin Alabur is an iOS developer from India who lived in the US and dreamed of creating a tech startup. “I had a…
Environment
We Need To Take CO2 Out Of The Sky: I wrote this to share some of my learning over the last few months with the goal of helping you, a non-scientist…
Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea: Skip to main content Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on…
Experiments show hummingbirds see colors you’ve never dreamed of: The phrase “every color of the rainbow” isn’t quite as all-encompassing as it sounds. For one thing, the color chips in…
Food
What Noma did next: how the ‘New Nordic’ is reshaping the food world: Few restaurants have enjoyed as much acclaim and influence, or been as widely caricatured, as the Copenhagen…
My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?: Forced to shutter Prune, I’ve been revisiting my original dreams for it — and wondering if there will still be a place…
Arts
Why Do We Even Listen to New Music?: Listening to new music is hard. Not hard compared to going to space or war, but hard compared to listening to music we…
Society
The Unraveling of America: Wade Davis holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. His…
Opinion | How We Broke the World: Opinion Greed and globalization set us up for disaster. If recent weeks have shown us anything, it’s that the world is…
“Reality” is constructed by your brain. Here’s what that means, and why it matters.: Fix your gaze on the black dot on the left side of this image. But wait! Finish reading this paragraph first. As you…
Therapy llama ‘Caesar the No Drama Llama’ calms tensions at protests: The protests in Portland, Ore., have been calmer in recent days. The shift away from large-scale clashes with police…
The Coronavirus Pandemic
Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus | Free to read: Humankind is now facing a global crisis. Perhaps the biggest crisis of our generation. The decisions people and…
We’re not going back to normal: To stop coronavirus we will need to radically change almost everything we do: how we work, exercise, socialize, shop…
The first modern pandemic: Innovation vs. the coronavirus The first modern pandemic The scientific advances we need to stop COVID-19. This is the…
‘Finally, a virus got me.’ Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from…: Virologist Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, fell ill with COVID-19 in…
Opinion: I’ve fought epidemics around the world. Now it’s Canada that must prepare for the worst: Canada is about to experience the full brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most Canadians have no idea how overwhelming a…
Comment la planète a manqué le bateau: Les spécialistes des virus émergents annonçaient depuis longtemps qu’un virus comme celui de la COVID-19, ou pire…