BusinessRaising money is catastrophically challenging for female founders “Raising money is really difficult for female founders, and it’s even more difficult for Black female founders.” It is a strong, even scathing statement, but…
TechnologyLooking For a New Career Take These Network Engineering Courses for Under $40 Although the internet is at the heart of everything, networking is at the heart of the internet. If you are looking for a new job,…
OtherRare African Script Hints At How Writing Evolved A tiny number of Liberians devised a method of writing down the Vai language in the early nineteenth century. Instead of replicating Roman or Arabic…
Plants and AnimalsMesmerizing Twirl of Rare Blanket Octopus Captured On Video Do you ever have the feeling that you are a plastic bag? The blanket octopus (Tremoctopus spp.) has a captivating swirl of billowing tentacles that…
AstronomyElusive Gravitational-Wave Background throughout the Universe Might Have Detected It thought that there a vibration – a low-frequency hum – that spans all of space and time, caused by gravitational waves released by some…
policyBiden’s Workplace Vaccine-Or-Test Mandate Blocked By Supreme Court President Joe Biden’s edicts requiring large-scale workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and the US Supreme Court has prohibited wearing a…
Plants and AnimalsDNA Mutations Are Not Completely Random, Claims New Study Researchers may have uncovered something crucial about how mutations occur in DNA: while previously assumed to be random, they now appear to follow a pattern,…
AstronomyBaby Stars near Us Are All Born from a 1,000-Light Year Bubble Thousands of newborn stars orbit the solar system, all enclosed in a strange formation known as the Local Bubble. Astronomers have now figured out how…
TechnologyTuro’s S-1 Filing Shows that Unicorns can Slingshot out of the Pandemic Turo, a peer-to-peer car-sharing service, filed for an IPO Friday night. If you missed it, TechCrunch’s initial peek at its S-1 filing can see here.…
OtherWhy Your Zodiac Sign Is Probably Wrong I was born under the sign of Capricorn (please do not condemn me), yet the Sun was in the middle of Sagittarius at the time…