Published inThe Superposition·Mar 28Agricultural PollutionGlobal food systems have had one hell of a hundred years: managing to keep up with the population growing from just under 2 billion to the staggering 8 billion people we see today. However, 10–12% of the world does still go hungry, with the leading reason being rising food costs…Agriculture5 min readAgriculture5 min read
Published inThe Superposition·Mar 22Q&A with Dr. Luke EspositoTell us about yourself — what is your background in and how did you end up in your current position? Human biology has always been a huge fascination for me. So perhaps it’s not surprising that for most of my career, my scientific interests have been directed at understanding mechanisms…Neuroscience9 min readNeuroscience9 min read
Published inThe Superposition·Mar 8What’s Going Up?Ridesharing isn’t just for your Uber or Lyft anymore — more and more companies are getting in on the space game. At The Superposition, we have talked about smallsats and cubesats before, but a lot has changed since then. While it isn’t necessarily any cheaper to get to space, there…Space5 min readSpace5 min read
Published inThe Superposition·Feb 28Q&A with Dr. Jeff DrorTell us about yourself — what is your background in and how did you end up in your current position? I’m a physicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I work in a couple of different fields — on the bridge between particle physics and cosmology, and astrophysics, so…8 min read8 min read
Published inThe Superposition·Feb 23Looking at the NumbersThe era of big data we find ourselves in is, in the simplest sense, built on collecting data and processing it. The social barriers to collecting data have been broken down and the networks to transmit it have been built out. The housing of all of this data is dramatically…Data Visualization6 min readData Visualization6 min read
Published inThe Superposition·Feb 15Q&A with Kazuma KishidaTell us about yourself — what is your background in and how did you end up in your current position? I started my career at an American investment bank, Houlihan Lokey, which specializes in mergers and acquisitions advisory. I was mainly engaged in the medical and tech industries as a…Research5 min readResearch5 min read
Published inThe Superposition·Feb 9Slowing Down the Textile IndustryThe green energy transition has been winning big recently, capped off by the recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. …Textile5 min readTextile5 min read
Published inThe Superposition·Feb 7Q&A with Jenna LansingTell us about yourself — what is your background in and how did you end up in your current position? My background is all farming and agriculture. I grew up on a farm in Iowa: my parents feed cattle and row crop. While growing up, I helped my family with…Agriculture8 min readAgriculture8 min read
Published inThe Superposition·Feb 2We Need to Talk about GMOsGene editing in crops isn’t a new trend, and we should stop acting like it is. For as long as humans have been farming, there has been intervention in the way a crop grows. It began with plant domestication — the selective process in which one species is chosen over…6 min read6 min read
Published inThe Superposition·Jan 30An Order of Magnitude BetterWe all compete for top talent, and it is plain that culture can be a difference-maker. Too often; however, I am finding that cultures in a given category, industry, or location are not meaningfully differentiated from each other. …5 min read5 min read
