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THE PARADOX OF MEDICAL PROGRESS “One of the reasons is that cancer is not one disease—it’s actually hundreds of different diseases,” says Dr. Deborah Schrag of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. “Some cancers are caused by viruses, like the HPV virus, which causes cervical cancer. Others are related to tobacco, like lung cancer; or obesity, like pancreas cancer; and so on. There are so many different risk factors and pathways that lead to many different diseases. So even though we often refer to cancer as one condition, it’s really an umbrella term.” … [Read more...] about A new early-detection blood test marks a leap forward in the war on cancer

A new comprehensive climate bill The best way to tackle these sectors would be a comprehensive climate bill that uses some mechanism, such as a clean energy standard, that sets a cap, or limit, on emissions and tightens it over time. Here, the problem lies more in the politics of the moment than anything else. Biden and his team will have to convince lawmakers from fossil fuel-producing states to work on these efforts. … [Read more...] about Biden plans to fight climate change in a way no U.S. president has before

When Evan, John, and I needed to make a decision, we could usually do it pretty quickly. We were all deep every day in customer conversations, the architecture of our software, and how all the pieces fit together. We could imagine how our decisions today would play out over time. Even though we each had our areas of expertise (Evan wrote a lot of the infrastructure, John wrote a lot of the core product services, I wrote a lot of the API, web, and billing layers) we all knew enough to act as one brain. When you hold the whole picture in your heads and you work together every day, you can make progress incredibly fast. That’s the power of a small team—there are no proxies; you’re just directly solving customer problems with your code.That’s the magic that makes startups so special and so productive. There’s so little overhead to manage, the coordination energy is negligible, and people tend to have a tremendous intrinsic drive because they’re so close … [Read more...] about The “dozen-bagel” secret to preserving startup spirit as your company grows

“For whatever weird reason, we have the idea that powering through is the best way to get stuff done and a sign of our own virtue,” he says. “We’ve got it upside down and believe amateurs take breaks and pros don’t. Athletes know that taking breaks is not a deviation from performance but is part of performance.” … [Read more...] about 5 ways to persuade yourself to be more productive

Until recently, a remote corner of the Big Island of Hawaii was barren. The area was originally an ancient sandalwood forest, but hundreds of years ago, when the trees were cut down to sell the wood and cattle started grazing on the land, it became what is now essentially desert. Today, a startup is piloting a new system to bring the forest back on a 45-acre plot—and to demonstrate an approach to reforest the planet quickly enough to fight climate change. … [Read more...] about Reddit’s former CEO is now in the forest-planting business