Watching a business grow is like watching a child grow. Certain characteristics take you by surprise. That's how Luis Segura says he and his wife Leanna felt watching their fresh food business bloom in Lindsay, Ont. "You see all those little things, those little characteristics that start to shine and come out," Luis said. "I... Continue Reading →

Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Paper or plastic? is less a question and more of a way of life. How you answer it says something about you. You know you're supposed to say paper, but there's something a little more flexible and... Continue Reading →

DARPA has created an unmanned, autonomous submarine hunting warship and, after two years of extensive testing, turned it over to the US Navy. https://youtu.be/FWQf1o1SJcQ Source: https://futurism.com/videos/autonomous-ship-travel-90-days-human-crew/

War is coming—the signs are everywhere. Last week, U.S. and Chinese negotiators met in Washington to cap the 100-day dialogue that Presidents Trump and Xi promised at their April summit. It didn’t go well. The joint statement reported no new agreements, and both sides canceled their planned press conferences. Two days later, President Trump ordered a “cross-government... Continue Reading →

A strange phenomenon at the furthest edges of our solar system was recently studied in greater detail, thanks to NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. In this outer region of the solar system, particles that come from our Sun and interstellar space interact. As the name suggests interstellar space is the area between stars, between solar systems. This outer... Continue Reading →

John McDonnell has announced that Labour may include a trial of Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the next Labour Party Manifesto. UBI – state provision of unconditional monthly stipends to all adult citizens – has been justified on myriad grounds: citizenship, welfare reform, growth. However, its biggest and, as yet, unexplored contribution may be to physical health and it... Continue Reading →

Germany was supposed to be a model for solving global warming. In 2007, the country’s government announced that it would reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by the year 2020. This was the kind of bold, aggressive climate goal scientists said was needed in all developed countries. If Germany could do it, it... Continue Reading →

Elizabeth Warren has a big idea that challenges how the Democratic Party thinks about solving the problem of inequality. Instead of advocating for expensive new social programs like free college or health care, she’s introducing a bill Wednesday, the Accountable Capitalism Act, that would redistribute trillions of dollars from rich executives and shareholders to the... Continue Reading →

Robotic workers might sound like science fiction, but they're increasingly becoming science fact. Automation has already been blamed for taking jobs away from humans. And as technology such as autonomous vehicles and cashier-free convenience stores continues to improve, those fears are only going to get worse. Throwing humanoid robots into the mix could take those... Continue Reading →

When the disembodied cockroach leg twitched, Yeongin Kim knew he had finally made it. A graduate student at Stanford, Kim had been working with an international team of neuroengineers on a crazy project: an artificial nerve that acts like the real thing. Like sensory neurons embedded in our skin, the device—which kind of looks like... Continue Reading →