Blog Posts
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Over the last 10 years, the U.S. National Institutes of Health has invested $170 million to better understand the universe of bacteria that live within us—the so-called microbiome. In thefirst phase of the project, researchers focused on cataloguing the myriad types of microbes found throughout the body, including in the mouth, nose, gut, and reproductive…
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has called the e-commerce giant “the best place in the world to fail.” He has instituted a culture in which failure is not only acceptable, but is an essential part of doing business. Amazon has had some spectacular failures over the years, costing billions of dollars. Companies that don’t continue to experiment,…
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Mukbang is a uniquely Korean trend of people getting paid to eat large meals in front of a webcam for a live-streaming broadcast. Mukbang is a word that combines the Korean word for “eat” (muk-da) with the word for “broadcast” (bang song). Mukbang first became popular among niche Korean video-streamers a decade ago. On the popular video broadcasting channel…
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Over the past 12 months there has been a huge increase in the number of companies that are now using blockchain, including all major global banks, all of the stock exchanges, insurance companies, healthcare, many governments are using blockchain for distribution of benefits etc. When I started in crypto 4 or so years ago, it…
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Amazon, the largest retailer on the planet with more than 100 million people worldwide with an Amazon Prime subscription, will host Amazon Prime Day, its massive annual sale for Prime members, on July 15 and 16. It is estimated that Amazon total sales could reach $5.5 to $6 billion. Amazon Prime Day is exclusive to…