Our good friend Josh Feola, from Seravia, helps out with some heavy lifting as we try and get ourselves incorporated.
Science marches on to increasingly meta and postmodern frontiers. This week a few lazy chemists created self-stirring liquids. Meanwhile, a Japanese physicist with a higher ambition to laziness set the ball rolling on the one thing besides flying cars that we all thought would have arrived by this millennium: teleportation. Actually, his achievement (which if I understand correctly is basically just an idea I’ve also heard explained by the wisdom cube) is more philosophy than physics. Basically, you have these theoretical particles floating around the universe, that you measure somehow, and then “the measurement on the first particle injects quantum energy into the system …. [and] by carefully choosing the measurement to do on the second particle, it is possible to extract the original energy.” Dude. If we continue at this rate we may soon surpass plants in quantum efficiency.
A few pieces of marine biology news made some waves as well. It has been long known that octopi are masters of disguise and consummate pranksters. Biologists now claim that they are also tool users and ballers. Also, there was this.
Speaking of Friedmans, I really don’t like Thomas Friedman. I’m no economist, but Michael Pettis is, and he also runs one of the best live music venues in Beijing.
A few more highlights: this corporation riffs on Rollins’ dystopic fantasy, the global influence of the East Asian hustle expands dramatically in time and space, LeBron James prompts a new statistic, and at press time, the statistical figure to beat in this contest is 4.28.
Finally, if you are DJing any unironic raves or sociology conferences this weekend, be sure to add these guys to your mix.