What’s Possible: 29th July, 2022

We hope you enjoy this week's hand-picked selection of important and interesting stories from the frontiers of tech.

This Australian startup’s maggot army is making feed out of flies

Companies like Bardee are not only preventing methane emissions by diverting food waste from landfill, they’re also replacing emissions-heavy agricultural practices, like cattle rearing and synthetic fertilisers. (read)

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Improving healthcare with DeSci

Vincent Weisser is the Chief Product at Molecule, an open platform that connects decentralized science research to funding. Molecule is creating collaborative marketplaces, where stakeholders in drug development can work together to expedite the process of medical research. On this episode, Vincent shares how they connect leading researchers to funding by giving ownership of the intellectual property and its development to individuals as opposed to only institutions - making it a liquid and easily investable asset. (listen)

‍The Audacity of The Network State - And how web3 is tilting the traditional political axis

The Realigning: From red-vs-blue to orange-vs-green. Decentralized network vs centralized state. Internationalists and capitalists vs nationalists and socialists. The cloud vs the land. And Bitcoin vs the dollar. (read)

Biden Administration plans for lega psychedelic therapies within two years

As twin mental health and drug misuse crises kill thousands of people per week, the potential of psychedelic-assisted therapies “must be explored,” urges a federal letter on behalf of the U.S. health secretary. (read)

The three categories of autonomy in agriculture

Sara Nolet from Tenacious Ventures interviews Andrew Bate (SwarmFarm Robotics): “Autonomous farming equipment and robotics in ag is more crowded than ever. Every new acquisition from an incumbent or deployment of venture capital into the space creates more buzz to sort through in the inboxes of analysts, entrepreneurs, and farmers. With the industry growing so quickly, it’s helpful to have a bird’s-eye view of what’s happening, and what it means for the future of agriculture.” (listen)

Interesting adjacencies

• Fred Wilson: Remote, Hybrid, or In-Person? (link)
• ICYMI: Synthetic Biology is about to disrupt your industry (link)
• What the merge means for Ethereum today (link)
• Lower Carbon’s Carbon Removal Startup Wishlist (link)
• Psyched-up: The race to make psychedelic drugs (watch)

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