U.S. wholesale chain Costco was forced to shut its first store in China early on its opening day on Tuesday after large crowds caused traffic jams. Source: Business News –
An Intimate Stranger: Traveling with Emmanuel Iduma
AT PRECISELY THE MIDPOINT of A Stranger’s Pose, Emmanuel Iduma’s engrossing book of travel tales and photography, lies a spread of black pages speckled by a series of unevenly positioned white dots and names, connected by a necklace of dotted lines. From Rabat at the top to Dakar on the left, down through Yaoundé at […]
Poetic Justice: Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Life in Law and Letters
TO FATHOM JUST HOW out of place the subject of Stephen Budiansky’s new biography Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas would be on today’s Supreme Court, one need only compare him with the Justice who has left the most significant mark on the contemporary Court, the recently retired Anthony Kennedy. Both […]
Every Computer Science Degree Should Require a Course in Cybersecurity
Just one of the top 24 U.S. undergraduate programs does. Source: Harvard Business Review – Jack Cable
The woman who founded top health-tech VC Rock Health is now launching her first startup, and it shows that a long-neglected market is heating up
Natalist As a cofounder of the well-regarded VC firm Rock Health, Halle Tecco is a major name in the world of digital health startups. Tecco is now starting her own: a women’s-health-focused startup called Natalist. Natalist’s first offering is a subscription bundle for women who are seeking to get pregnant. The idea came out of […]
The startup behind the world’s first marijuana breathalyzer just raised a fresh $30 million and offered a glimpse at how the device works
Courtesy Hound Labs Hound Labs, a startup that aims to make the first marijuana breathalyzer, raised a fresh $30 million on Tuesday. The California-based company also published the first study offering a glimpse at how the handheld device works. Today, there’s no good way to determine if someone is too high to work or drive. […]