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How you can help save declining butterflies

Fast Company Tech

Butterflies have a high surface-to-volume ratio they dont hold much moisture so they can easily become desiccated in dry conditions. With restoration efforts, one Karner blue population in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve in New York rebounded from a few hundred individuals in the early 1990s to thousands of butterflies.

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Watch Joby Aviation’s electric air taxi complete a 150-mile flight

The Verge

If you want to fly from New York City to Montauk, Joby wanted to show that it can get you there without running out of juice. The power-to-weight ratio is one of the biggest inhibitors. Rather than fly between two points, Joby’s aircraft flew in a 14-mile circle 11 times for a total flight time of one hour and 17 minutes.

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How Ambitious Managers Make The Jump To Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

As the creator of the iconic “Corner Office” column in the New York Times , Bryant has spoken with more than a thousand leaders over the years about the challenges and nuances of leadership. How to perfect the do-to-say ratio. Here’s another must-read book to add to your list as you transition from manager to leader.

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This Twitter Fundraisers, Next Year FourSquare Fundraisers.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition to the regular system of points and rewards, a ratio will be created between points earned and dollars, with the funds raised donated to CampInteractive. Dennis Crowley, FourSquare’s founder and CEO said today: “This has been something we’ve wanted to do with FourSquare for a long time.

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Humans and AI: How Should You Talk About AI? Be Positive or Give Warnings?

DataRobot

In a July 2020 interview with the New York Times , Musk expressed his opinion that London research lab DeepMind is a “top concern” when it comes to artificial intelligence. And science shows that people need to exceed a tipping point 2.9013 ratio of positive to negative emotions for overall well-being. .” AI Doomsaying.

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mPharma raises $35million in round participated by Tinder co-founder’s JAM fund, Bharti executive

TechCrunch

doctors for every 10,000 people against the best ratio of 84.2 Besides a low doctor to patient ratio, healthcare infrastructure also remains critically underdeveloped. Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures.

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Tiger Global backs fintech CreditBook in first Pakistan investment

TechCrunch

This is the New York-headquartered firm’s first investment in Pakistan. On Friday, Tiger Global said it is backing their startup, CreditBook , to help address those challenges.

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