Matt Abrahams published a useful piece in the Harvard Business Review that describes the "What, So What, Now What" communications framework, including examples of how to employ the framework when introducing something, answering a question, or giving feedback.
Blockchain alerts company NinjaAlerts demonstrated the functionality of Bitcoin Ordinals (NFTs attached to individual satoshis) by attaching a SNES emulator to the Bitcoin blockchain.
The new Marvel show Echo centres around the main character Maya who is of Native American heritage and can tap into an ancient power through her ancestral lineage. The story includes flashback scenes along that lineage and at the start of episode 2, the fascinating sport of Choctaw Stickball is portrayed. Stickball survives today as an ultra-physical game of 60 players, based on the ancient version of the sport that was nick-named the little brother of war, when it was used to settle disputes between tribes.
You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment is an excellent 4 part series that follows 4 sets of twins through a study that measures the health benefits of exercise and a vegan diet versus exercise and a more healthy omnivore diet. The show also includes many fascinating side-stories such as a chicken farmer that switched to growing mushrooms, cheese made from cashew nuts, urban gorilla vegetable gardens, & the best restaurant in the world going vegan.
Google-backed non-profit Global Fishing Watch used AI models & satellite imagery to build a true map of ocean vessels and offshore infrastructure. The results show 30% of global vessels are not publicly tracked, and 75% of industral fishing vessels are not tracked.
PhD candidate František Bartoš organised 47 volunteers to flip coins 350,757 times over 12 hours, to prove that coin tosses contain a 1% bias for the side visible before the coin is flipped.
In response to the barrage of electric vehicle misinformation in the UK media, Carbon Brief published a fact-checking piece busting 21 of the most wide-spread EV myths.
