Bags and the body: one-shoulder, cross-body and hand-carried bags in adults
A scoping review of how carrying a bag on one shoulder, across the body or in one hand affects adults. Sixty records, mostly small lab…
Peter Kalafatis
Leather’s carbon bill follows the hide price, not the cow
Leather LCAs give the hide a share of a steer’s farm emissions in proportion to its value. In the US that share fell from about…
Fewer Alerts, Same Allergy: Hexavalent Chromium in EU Leather Goods, 2005–2026
EU alerts for hexavalent chromium in leather goods fell 13-fold after the 2015 limit. Market surveys and patch tests show far less change: about one…
Trade Secrets vs Patents in Biotech: Which Protection Fits Which Invention
Patents trade disclosure for a fixed monopoly. Trade secrets last while secrecy holds but offer no shield against reverse engineering. Here is how biotech companies…
Anthropic Pledges 5% of Its Shares to a New Public Benefit Fund, With Key Details Still Unwritten
In the news: Anthropic says it will commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, with more possible as its valuation grows….
Neural Data Privacy Laws: Which Ones Reach a Consumer EEG Headband?
Four US states, Chile and Vermont now name brain data in law. This article compares the texts and traces one consumer EEG headband’s data through…
Data Center Developer Offers Every Household in a Kansas Town $1,000 in Tax Credits
In the news: Digital Realty says it will give every household in De Soto, Kansas $1,000 in utility and property tax credits over 10 years…
The Reversal Curse: Why LLMs Learn ‘A Is B’ but Not ‘B Is A’
Language models that learn ‘A is B’ during training often cannot answer ‘B is A’. Here is what is established about the reversal curse, the…
Schwab and JPMorgan Block Outside AI Agents From Customer Accounts
In the news: Schwab and JPMorgan say they will not let outside AI agents log in with customer credentials, while both still allow some read-only…
Can You Patent a Scientific Discovery? Where the Law Draws the Line
Laws of nature and natural phenomena cannot be patented, but applications can. Here is how Myriad, Mayo and the USPTO separate discovery from invention.