Hey team!

Turns out writing a weekly email is hard. And I have a quality bar. Last week it didn't make it.

I vow to never send you a boring email. Meaning some weeks I'll have to skip it. Because of this, today we have a great and exciting issue (I hope!)

Jony Ive's Ferrari

Jony Ive, the person responsible for the design of a plethora of Apple products like iPod and Mac, and iPhone, produced the interior for the latest Ferrari EV.

People have radically different opinions on this but pretty much everybody has one.

And the buttons are cool! Even though Tesla fans believe the buttons killed their fathers.

Why is the sky blue?

"Why is the sky blue?" is a surprisingly difficult question in physics. Our teachers at the university loved it for this. Here's a fantastically-written and designed webpage that answers it in detail.

Algorithmically Found Longest Lines Of Sight

With the help of a custom-developed algorithm these people have checked every single view on Earth and found the longest line of sight on the planet.

Best Case Scenarios

Too many news media are about gloom and doom. It sells. People read it. Share it.

So let me share something else. This new podcast presents the best case scenario over the next 25 years across different domains of life: energy, transportation, brain science, etc.

Reprogramming E.coli

One of the most important discoveries in molecular biology happened in 1974 when scientists took a gene from a frog (Xenopus laevis) and transferred it into a bacterium (E. coli). The bacterial cells successfully read, processed, and expressed the gene.

This meant the entire living world is, in principle, "programmable" and genes can be swapped between kingdoms of life, which enabled things like:

• The production of human insulin in bacteria (saved millions of people with T1 diabetes)
• Manufacturing of vaccines in yeast and chicken eggs
• Engineered crops carrying biopesticide genes from algae, etc.

You can read more here.