MycoWorks is investing $107 million to build its first full-scale mushroom leather production plant in South Carolina, where it will create 400 new jobs. 

You know PornHub, but for the sake of appearances let's say this is the first time you've ever heard of the site. It is, hands down, one of the biggest, most popular porn sites on the internet. We're talking more than 78 billion views in 2014 (which was about 5,800 views per second, in case you were curious) kind of popular. In fact, the site has so much traffic that when Fallout 4 wanted to brag about how popular it was, it cited the fact that it had dropped PornHub's traffic by 10 percent on release day.

Cocoa husks, dried orange peel, ground blue pea flowers: the ingredients read like a tasting menu. They are, in fact, waste products that are used to make Orb – a sustainable building material that is carbon neutral. It’s versatile enough to be used for furniture or as a substitute for a wood-based sheet material.

You would think the US military would have the ability to fix its equipment any time it wants, it any manner it wants. According to a US military procurement officer, you'd be wrong. Right-to-repair apparently resonates with the military, too.

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Big Brother was so 1984. Now in 2019, it’s all about Big Blizzard.

Whether its proponents are cynical or simply naive, UBI is not the patch we need. A weekly handout doesn’t promote economic equality - or empowerment. By Douglas Rushkoff.

Increasing the yield of crop plants is a major facet of increasing food security, and one way to do this is from understanding plant biology which begins with the process of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis, popularly termed as the “green engine of the earth”, is the process by which plants convert light energy into chemical energy that is later released to fuel the plant activities such as growth. If we want to keep the planet and its growing population running in a sustainable way, we will need plants to produce far more food, energy and applicable biomass than they do today.

From The Comics Journal #134, February 1990.

Some of the coolest features of the Animator’s Desks, though, had nothing to do with the artistry and craftsmanship of animation, at least not directly. By Ben Marks.

Using Chinese-language sources and analysis of papers published by Chinese military scientists, the report presents the first detailed analysis of the nature and scale of this overlooked issue. By Alex Joske.

Plenty of auto manufacturers are known for high-tech factories that make halo cars. But usually those facilities are in Europe, like Bugatti’s sparkling white plant in France or McLaren’s incredible speed laboratory in England. Acura would like you to change your thinking here, one of the most advanced car factories in the world can be found in America’s heartland.

In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism. By Marie Hicks.

“The article of clothing which women ought only to wear in a figure of speech.” By Natasha Frost.

Norma Rae was a lie. By Nick Martin.

By “dangling the carrot” to improve worker productivity, businesses are taking a page from slavery’s playbook. By Caitlin C. Rosenthal.

There’s nothing virtuous about “early to bed, early to rise.” By Kate Shellnutt. (Feb. 27, 2017)

A ship’s markings may look like hieroglyphs, but to industry insiders they tell an important story. By Erin Van Rheenen .

Gary Saul Morson on On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Idiot.”

Experts complain of shoddy tech specs and personal attacks. By Kieren McCarthy.