Curated Commons // Edition 96
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Online scams are now a well-oiled criminal enterprise
Worrying deep-dive on the online “pig butchering” scam. Stay safe out there folks! - Read here
“There is no un-scammable person. Only scripts that don’t fit.”
Phantom candidates. Real opinions
I love surveys. You get the responses you want. Whether they make sense or not is a totally different issue.
btw, the same “Stewart Lewis” polled 3% in 2015.
Never under-estimate the impact of a lone & committed individual
This woman “single-handedly invented a new way to undermine Wikipedia”. - Read here
The TikTok of the month!
Crazy. Do watch till the end.
There is now a highly-effective weight loss drug
Fascinating story on the development of a new weight loss drug by Novo Nordisk. - Read here ($)
Two Brazilian besties who are also scientists
Fascinating story on two Brazilian women scientists who want to invent their own mRNA vaccine and do what Pfizer and Moderna are hesitant to do - open source it to the world. - Read here
We are living our gene-edited future
Science, FTW! - Read here
The new benchmark for scamming
Can’t make this up. A group of farmers in India have been busted for running a fake Cricket league and convincing Russian punters to bet on it. Do read the thread and the linked stories and watch the video as well!
Treating ADHD, with a video game
Games, for killing time. Games, for treating kids. - Read here
3-D Printing is maturing
No more the novelty that it has been seen so far as. Good piece - Read here ($)
FT loved crypto then. Now it loves Web3
Not like how you thought though. - Read here ($)
Meet the high-tech weathermen quantifying climate risk
Satellite imaging, open data, algorithmic analysis and more - how startups are helping bond investors quantify climate risk - Read here ($)
And finally, love these capitalistic anti-capitalism warriors. There’s always a market!
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