
R&D Across the Sea

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

I had sort of forgotten about Beyond Meat (BYND), but…………..yikes!

As a starting point, I suggest you take a quick look at this post from a decade ago as well as this more recent one. They both relate to something I’ve written about a number of times, which is teens hurling themselves in front of trains here in my otherwise gentle town of Palo Alto.
It happened again this week, with one Summer Devi Mehta, a young person at Palo Alto High School who threw herself in front of CalTrain at 10:13 on Tuesday morning. What’s quite unusual is that Summer published a suicide note for all to see before she killed herself. It reads as follows.
(more…)It’s been a great week, but no time to get greedy or loony. I’m lightly committed now.
