Media Dragon: Sticks and data science

Father and Son Build ‘Stick Library’ for Local Dogs To “Borrow” Sticks My Modern Met

Out today: Walter Isaacson's The Code Breaker, the story of how Nobel-winner Jennifer Doudna & her colleagues developed the Crispr gene editing technique.

The Commonwealth Bank has embedded data science people in almost every part of the group’s operations, hoping their domain knowledge will lead to more AI-powered optimisations.

Chief data scientist Dan Jermyn told the AI Australia by Eliiza podcast that the bank had split its AI and data science efforts - which come under a broader “decision science” effort internally - between embedded capabilities and a more centralised AI Labs teamWe

Your Indifferent Cat Won’t Choose Your Friend Over Your Enemy, Research Finds Science Alert

To fight climate change, save the whales, some scientists say MongaBay

Monarch butterfly population falls in MexicoReuters

In a Momentous Discovery, Scientists Show Neanderthals Could Produce Human-Like SpeechScienceAlert

Scientists describe ‘hidden biodiversity crisis’ as variation within species is lost PhysOrg

A 1990s iMac Processor Powers NASA’s Perseverance Rover Gizmodo

Deep Nostalgia: ‘creepy’ new service uses AI to animate old family photos Guardian

Mysterious sea beast that weighs four tonnes and stretches more than 23ft in length washes up on beach in Wales Daily Mail

Long-Lost Babbler Bird Documented in Borneo for the First Time in Over 170 Years Smithsonian

Big data and machine learning in central bankingBank of International Settlements

We must clean up global finance to ‘build back better’ FT

Talking (and reading) about Bitcoin Adam Tooze, Chartbook. Link-heavy, and quite a good read.

Twitter Worked With Amazon to Block Payday, Labeling Payday & Other Labor Reporters as “Suspicious Content” Payday Report

Amazon closes North Las Vegas warehouse for day after employee suicide Las Vegas Review-Journal
As coal dies, the US has no plan to help the communities left behind Grist