Grow Crops Like a Fighter Pilot
The OODA Loop is a way of thinking, and it’s useful for confronting any complex, fast-changing situation.
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Toward the Age of Agrobots: Complexity, AI & the Future of Food Part 4
From voice-activated farming to robots that speak plant language—discover how collective intelligence is revolutionizing agriculture.
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Boosting Agriculture’s Climate Resilience: Complexity, AI, and the Future of Food Part 3
From $7.5B derecho storms to $300B losses in poor countries—discover how embodied AI is revolutionizing climate-resilient farming.
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Thinking beyond human capabilities: Complexity, AI, and the Future of Food Part 2
Plants have secret intelligence humans can’t perceive. Discover how biomimicry and bee vision are revolutionizing agricultural AI.
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Artificial Intelligence’s Potential for Addressing Global Food Security
Given the connection between AI and nature, it’s worth exploring how AI can help solve one of the greatest practical challenges facing agriculture: food security.
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COVID-19 is a Wake-Up Call to Strengthen our Food Supply Chain Amid Shifting Geopolitics
To compete against such savvy players on the world stage, the US must move beyond the stockpile mentality and elevate concern for food security to address our current vulnerabilities.
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Contemporary Global Food Systems as Contested Space
From ancient Rome to modern warfare—how control of food systems determines military victories. Special ops forces reveal hidden agricultural vulnerabilities.
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Get Rich Quick By Going On A Nature Hike
Nature can be a great way to boost one’s net worth, as the natural world is as much an inspiration in finance as it is in scientific pursuits.
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What Can Fungus Teach Us About Making Money?
Looking at finance through the biology lens offers a unique view on complex interactions between billions of people whose decisions put the economy in motion.
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Europe’s Retreat from Science Threatens World Peace
Instead of allowing a scientific approach to growing food, Europe has withdrawn its technology, dense capital investment and fertile soil from the global effort to achieve a long-term food security solution. As the European Union is the world’s top exporter of food products, this is a major setback that the world can’t afford.