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Co-founder at @blakbear_ ending the billions in waste from fixed expiration dates on food

London
Joined August 2014
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Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are: • Proprietary data • Network effects • A physical component
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I bought this cheese at @Target 2 days ago. Expired over 8 MONTHS AGO.
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Another annoying thing about getting emails people have used AIs to write for them is that they're usually longer than they'd have written by themselves. Paragraphs and paragraphs of plausible-sounding text. Ugh.
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BlakBear partners with @CranswickPlc to launch a Digital Quality Program, adding digital shelf-life testing for 17 manufacturing sites across the UK using BlakBear's freshness sensors and AI software. This is a milestone for delivering product quality throughout the supply chain.
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🎙️ “Food should tell you how fresh it is” - that’s our mission at BlakBear, and it just got featured on @BBCWorld's #PeopleFixingTheWorld podcast! From 11m 25s, @CraigLangran visits our lab as our CEO @MaxMGrell shows how our sensors sniff out spoilage to fight #foodwaste.
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This year's winners of the Supply Chain Excellence Award, presented by @watermillpress, are… @CranswickPlc! Well deserved 🙌 #FoodmanAwards
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Did you know? High expansion nitrogen foam is an effective method of killing poultry which offers some advantages in terms of welfare impacts over some other currently used methods. [📹 malor009]
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there is a revolution taking place in biology before our eyes I spent the past month reading the papers & interviews of @drmichaellevin, and wrote a long-form essay explaining his work and why it's important bitsofwonder.co/p/a-revoluti…
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Max Grell retweeted
We envision a future without fixed Use by dates. Your food should tell you when it's fresh, when it's good to eat. #foodwaste #sustainability #foodtech
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The Cistercian numerals are a forgotten number system, developed by the Cistercian monastic order in the early thirteenth century, much more compact than Arabic or Roman numerals: with a single character you could write any integer from 1 to 9999 [more: buff.ly/2LDj1Kg]
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This is why train wheels are not perfectly cylindrical, but slightly conical [📹 3d_printer_academy]
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Competition betwee states is what produces macro-relevant technological innovation. It is why the period between 1871-1971 was one of the most productive in human history (don't believe me, read Gordon's RISE AND FALL OF AMERICAN GROWTH).
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Who doesn't love a plot twist every now and then?
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We see the world not as it is but as we are.
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the real affirmative action
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📣 Today we are thrilled to share details on our new 20 Angel Investors. We've chosen a second cohort of specialist operators & founders in our sectors across climate, economic empowerment and healthcare & ageing. vimeo.com/807614015/0bc5b530…
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The year is slowly coming to an end and we have another publication for you! Just out in @NatRevChem we describe the role of “time” in (plant) biology and discuss the emerging technologies for performing continuous “time” chemical measurements. Link: nature.com/articles/s41570-0… 1/2
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First #teamsocial last night with our new team members at Sandbox VR! 🐻🚀 Shoutout to the MVPs, Fırat & Vijay, with the highest scores - at least now we know who to call on in any alien invasions!
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