My understanding is that it's often the high cost of living rather than government policy which means that couples choose not to have more than one child.
I saw one commentator below mention quorn, but I think it depends on how this was done, presented and marketed.
Some top chefs do something approaching this - not quite at the molecular level in the way mentioned here, in a lab (although it's called molecular gastronomy), but nevertheless experimenting with different combinations and techniques. Artisanal experimentation vs industrial production.
I suspect this includes outsourcing a whole series of functions from support functions such as finance, accounting, tax and legal, to even what would be considered core functions such as UX, coding etc.
Taken to an extreme, the startup could remain a handful of people while benefiting from a much larger team which is not included in the headcount.
I wonder why they started with lettuce. I get the nutrients and minerals part, but the calorific value is low. Potatoes also grow well using hydroponics and would seem to be a better base choice for longer orbits.
It appears that the answer is "yes", especially if supplemented by a piece of fruit to replace minerals and nutrients. And even tea and coffee are fine provided that your body is relatively used to dealing with caffeine.
It would be interesting to know which people benefit from the phenomena he mentions in the video - luck, conferred status, survivor bias - with those who experience imposter syndrome, and how the two outcomes come about.
Which circumstances lead to people believing that they are solely responsible for, and deserve their success, and which cause people to to feel the opposite. Not sure what the literature says on this.
"We’re the middle children of history. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war, our Great Depression is our lives."
The 90s were a pretty fortunate decade. The threat of nuclear war had passed with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the economy was chugging along fine, and terrorism hadn't yet taken centre stage. Certainly that's the way I remember it - maybe through rose-tinted glasses (?)
But nevertheless, maybe a quiet life without crises isn't such a bad thing?
"Even before COVID-19, people spent a ton of time in front of screens. One survey found that the average American spends a whopping 17 hours and nine minutes a day on a laptop, phone, or gaming device. The pandemic pushed that time to more than 19 hours."
Clicking through to the source I can only assume that their survey subjects must be looking at TV screens, laptops and gaming devices concurrently. 19 hours a day would mean looking at some sort of screen in the shower and sleeping only 5 hours a day.
I remember learning that cuneiform isn't an alphabet and doesn't have characters, but rather characters to write syllables so it could be used to spell English or Chinese.
Apparently the combustion engine was invented before the bicycle as bikes need ball bearings to function smoothly, which also requires advanced machinery.