A must visit.
Useful link:
https://robbreport.com/travel/hotels/first-self-cleaning-hotel-room-ottilia-2842643
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Princeton Alums Are Sellers Of $100 Million Art Trove
A unique art collection for collectors.
Useful link:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-27/princeton-alums-are-said-to-be-sellers-of-100-million-art-trove
Useful link:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-27/princeton-alums-are-said-to-be-sellers-of-100-million-art-trove
Rembrandt In The Blood
Art business is full of surprises.
Useful link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/magazine/rembrandt-jan-six.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Useful link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/magazine/rembrandt-jan-six.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Underwater Photographer Of The Year Contest 2019
Organizers of the Underwater Photographer of the Year contest announced the winning photographers and images for this year, and the photographer Richard Barnden, from the U.K., was named Underwater Photographer of the Year 2019.
How To Pick Technology Winners
Judge case by case.
Useful link:
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/How-to-pick-technology-winners?gko=c5ae2
Useful link:
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/How-to-pick-technology-winners?gko=c5ae2
Currency Trading Invades London's Art Auctions In Brexit Shadow
What other options does collectors have?
Useful link:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-27/currency-trading-invades-london-s-art-auctions-in-brexit-shadow?srnd=premium-asia
Useful link:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-27/currency-trading-invades-london-s-art-auctions-in-brexit-shadow?srnd=premium-asia
Sir Peter Blake Label
Auction house Bonhams is expecting a bottle of 60-year-old scotch whisky to sell for up to £700,000 ($924,077) at auction next month in Edinburgh. The whisky sports a label designed by Sir Peter Blake, who co-created The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, and is one of only 12 bottles to ever carry the art.
The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up
Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up – the self-help manual de rigueur for people who want to want less is a must read.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
The Military Wants To Build A Bullshit Detector For Social Science Studies
Can we trust all these science?
Useful link:
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/2/25/18211125/darpa-score-center-for-open-science-ai
Useful link:
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/2/25/18211125/darpa-score-center-for-open-science-ai
Monday, February 25, 2019
Healthy.io
Get to know Yonatan Adiri.
Useful link:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/22/israeli-startup-turns-cellphone-into-a-testing-lab-for-kidney-disease.html
Useful link:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/22/israeli-startup-turns-cellphone-into-a-testing-lab-for-kidney-disease.html
Dust Samples From Asteroid Could Help Understand Origin Of Precious Minerals
The research should continue to know the unknown.
Useful link:
http://www.mining.com/dust-samples-asteroid-help-understand-origin-precious-minerals
Useful link:
http://www.mining.com/dust-samples-asteroid-help-understand-origin-precious-minerals
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells's book, titled The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming is a must read.
Random Thoughts
Plenty of men do good things, and plenty of women do bad. It's the structures that allow people in power to oppress others based on race, gender or economic status that are at the core of the problem. Those structures, however, are very slow to change.
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Matheny Arts Access Program
A creative outlet that is also therapeutic. Matheny Arts Access Program.
Dear Hank & John
Listen to Dear Hank & John comedy podcast in which they offer listeners questionable advice.
How Healthy Will We Be In 2040?
Spain has the highest life expectancy at birth among European Union nations, and trails only Japan and Switzerland globally, United Nations data show. Spain by 2040 is forecast to have the highest lifespan, at almost 86 years, followed by Japan, Singapore and Switzerland, according to the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
Coffee Genome Project
In an effort to create new plants, Juan Medrano, a professor at UC Davis, is leading a lab that is sequencing the genome of a popular strain of coffee plant.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
The Green Book
The Green Book, as it is most often called, became an invaluable resource to black people living in, and traveling through, America. It cataloged black-owned businesses around the country, directing motorists to establishments that served a wide range of functions. Amid its pages—digitized now at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York—were listings for restaurants, hotels, vacation destinations, barber shops, gas stations, and more. By the early 1960s, it had reached about 2 million people; toward the end of its run, it even included international listings. And now, more than 50 years after the final, 1966–67 edition of The Green Book was published, a new Smithsonian Channel documentary from the filmmaker Yoruba Richen traces the guide’s history and its ongoing significance. A must watch.
Netflix Formula
Netflix has discovered something unique: Despite a supposed surge in nationalism across the globe, many people like to watch movies and TV shows from other countries. The strategy may sound familiar; Hollywood and Silicon Valley have long pursued expansion internationally. But Netflix's strategy is fundamentally different. Instead of trying to sell American ideas to a foreign audience, it’s aiming to sell international ideas to a global audience. It works.
Wolfgat
Wolfgat seats just 20 diners in a tiny cottage in a fishing village more than two hours’ drive from Cape Town. And it is the most exciting place on the planet to eat. Good luck getting a table. Booking opens a maximum of three months in advance. But no tables are available.
The World Restaurant Awards this week handed the top accolade—Restaurant of the Year—to chef Kobus van der Merwe, who opened Wolfgat in his parents’ 130-year-old property in September 2016. A must visit.
New Monuments For New Cities
The nonprofit organization Friends of the High Line launched a collaborative public art exhibition this week at Buffalo Bayou, a waterway flowing through Houston. Called “New Monuments for New Cities,” the yearlong initiative will travel to five different urban reuse projects throughout North America, with stops at Waller Creek in Austin, The 606 in Chicago and The Bentway in Toronto before ending at the High Line in New York City. The initiative’s purpose is to challenge local artists to “transform underutilized infrastructure into new urban landscapes” while also advancing the discussion of what a monument should be in the 21st century. Take note. Many thanks to Smithsonian Magazine.
A Peculiar Business
Rich RJ Rappaport is the founder of Atlanta-based RJR Props, a movie prop company that specializes in faux cash for filming. His money was used in "The Wolf of Wall Street," "The Fast and the Furious," the Netflix series "Ozark" and in 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar music videos.
Dazed Beauty
Dazed Beauty: a new platform dedicated to redefining the language and communication of beauty.
Jack Handey
The famous humorist Jack Handey couldn’t have given us his immortal one-liner: before criticising someone, walk a mile in their shoes; that way, when you criticise them, you’ll be a mile away, and you’ll have their shoes.
Random Thoughts
With the extreme weather that we’re seeing over the last couple of years, we’re all beginning to relearn the fact that we live within nature, and in fact all of our lives are governed by its forces. None of us, no matter where we live, will be able to escape the consequences of this.
Friday, February 22, 2019
A Philosopher Argues That An AI Can’t Be An Artist
The philosopher could be right.
Useful link:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612913/a-philosopher-argues-that-an-ai-can-never-be-an-artist
Useful link:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612913/a-philosopher-argues-that-an-ai-can-never-be-an-artist
First AI Mining Company Goes Public
I wish Goldspot Discoveries good luck.
Useful link:
http://www.mining.com/first-ever-mining-ai-company-goes-public
Useful link:
http://www.mining.com/first-ever-mining-ai-company-goes-public
This Database Of Gemstone Inclusions Is Now Open To All
Many thanks to Lotus Gemology.
Useful link:
https://www.nationaljeweler.com/diamonds-gems/grading/7451-this-database-of-gemstone-inclusions-is-now-open-to-all
Useful link:
https://www.nationaljeweler.com/diamonds-gems/grading/7451-this-database-of-gemstone-inclusions-is-now-open-to-all
Thursday, February 21, 2019
The Periodic Table Song
In October 2015, YouTube host Mitchell Moffit released a song called "The Periodic Table Song" on the AsapScience channel, which started with the catchy lyrics: "There's hydrogen and helium, then lithium, beryllium ..." The song then went on through the entire litany of chemical elements, and science students everywhere began learning it as a helpful way to get them through their chemistry exams.
Balloon Adventures Dubai
Get to know Edgora McEwan.
Useful link:
https://robbreport.com/muse/journeys/edgora-mcewan-is-dubais-first-female-hot-air-balloon-pilot-2842010
Useful link:
https://robbreport.com/muse/journeys/edgora-mcewan-is-dubais-first-female-hot-air-balloon-pilot-2842010
Can Blockchain Help Drive Miners' Bottom Line?
Blockchain is still a baby in mining. I think with time they will catch-up.
Useful link:
http://www.mining.com/can-blockchain-help-drive-miners-bottom-line
Useful link:
http://www.mining.com/can-blockchain-help-drive-miners-bottom-line
Prismatic Rutile In Quartz
One of a kind gem inclusion.
Useful link:
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/winter-2018-microworld-prismatic-rutile-in-quartz
Useful link:
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/winter-2018-microworld-prismatic-rutile-in-quartz
Natural-Color Pink, Purple, Red, And Brown Diamonds: Band Of Many Colors
A series of studies on natural colored diamonds.
Useful link:
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/winter-2018-natural-color-pink-purple-red-brown-diamonds
Useful link:
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/winter-2018-natural-color-pink-purple-red-brown-diamonds
Waste No More
Fashion brand Eileen Fisher has always been a pioneer of sustainability in the clothing industry, but now, the company is doing more than taking responsibility for much of its fashion footprint. A new zero-waste initiative called “Waste No More” is merging architects with designers and ethics with business, creatively tied together with an oversized sustainable bow to bring more awareness to the importance of being more conscious of the massive environmental impact that the fashion industry continues to have on the planet. Many thanks to Robb Report.
The Most Innovative Companies In Africa 2019
These top 10 list of Fast Company's most innovative companies in Africa for 2019 can be found here.
Gem Diamonds Recovers A Pink Diamond
Gem Diamonds has recovered a high-quality, 13.33-carat pink diamond in Lesotho.
The type I diamond was unearthed earlier this month at its Letšeng mine, and is the first stone above 10.8 carats the company has reported this year. It is the largest pink diamond the miner has recovered since 2011, when it retrieved a 30.68-carat stone. In December it found a pink stone weighing 8.53 carats. Many thanks to Rapaport.
Sevan Bicakci
Known for his lavish carved-gemstone rings, the jeweler Sevan Bicakci has added watchmaking to his portfolio. Take a look.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Lucapa Mine Yields 128 ct. Diamond
Another surprise diamond find.
Useful link:
https://www.diamonds.net/News/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=63382&ArticleTitle=Lucapa%2bMine%2bYields%2b128ct.%2bDiamond
Useful link:
https://www.diamonds.net/News/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=63382&ArticleTitle=Lucapa%2bMine%2bYields%2b128ct.%2bDiamond
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
The Gomi Speaker
The Gomi Speaker is the result of research by the sustainable designer (and Gobi cofounder) Tom Meades. Operating largely thanks to an $11,000 grant from the nonprofit Environment Now Programme, he’s developed a process that repurposes plastic waste as speakers. Take a look.
Colored Stone Grading
One must view the whole, not just the parts. It is a fascinating exercise.
Useful link:
http://lotusgemology.com/index.php/library/articles/343-colored-stone-grading-a-heretic-s-guide
Useful link:
http://lotusgemology.com/index.php/library/articles/343-colored-stone-grading-a-heretic-s-guide
Precious Metals Forecast 2019
The results of the survey by the London Bullion Market Association of analysts' predictions for the gold price in 2019 is another example of just how unpredictable financial markets have become.
Random Thoughts
For those with plenty of discretionary income, what is the No.1 luxury item that’s taking money away from diamond jewelry?
I would guess it’s not a tangible item, like a handbag or a pair of shoes, but rather experiences, particularly travel. Is there a way to compete with that?
Monday, February 18, 2019
Electric Vehicle Market
By 2022, according to a recent report from Deloitte, electric cars will reach a tipping point: owning an electric vehicle will be as cheap as owning one that runs on fossil fuels, and sales will grow much more quickly. Take note.
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Climate Panic
The planet is getting warmer in catastrophic ways. And fear may be the only thing that saves us.
Random Thoughts
If you combine your passion (art, diamonds, colored stones, watches, jewelry, cars, real estate, wine, books, etc) with an informed decision, you’ll have something you love every day and maybe the value goes up one day.
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