Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (May 21, 2021)
Is Tesla The Future Of The Auto Industry?; How China Became a Global Leader in Solar Panels; Ten Rules for Successful Nations; Examining our biases and viewing the world objectively
Read: Is Tesla The Future Of The Auto Industry? [via 3 Quarks Daily]
Read: The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill: All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads.Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences. [via WIRED]
Listen: Podcaster and author Julia Galef talks about her book The Scout Mindset. Galef on how to be open-minded about what we might discover about the world--rather than simply defend what we already believe, which she calls the soldier mindset. The conversation is a wide-ranging discussion of our biases and the challenges of viewing the world objectively. [via EconTalk]
Listen: The future of flying is electrifying [via TED Talks]
Chart of the Week: The most profitable companies in the world [via Statista]
Watch: How China Became a Global Leader in Solar Panels
Watch: FT Columnist Ruchir Sharma on Ten Rules for Successful Nations
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