3 Questions. 3 Hints. 3 Answers. Every Tuesday.
1. What Beach Boys song may have inspired this start-up’s name?
Hint:
Answer: no wheels? No problem. Just download the Getaround app and unlock your way to freedom — in someone else’s car. For the time being, car rental access is limited to Washington, D.C., Portland, OR or San Francisco, CA. Getaround installs a device in networked cars that customers unlock via an app. Once unlocked, the car keys are available inside the car. A minimum hourly rental time applies, after which time charges are applied in 15-minute increments. The renter can expect to be charged $5 to $9 an hour of which Getaround takes a 40 percent cut. For the lessor, there is a $99 installation fee, and a $20 monthly network connection fee. Getaround guarantees a $1000 monthly income the first three months — and provides driver insurance. Read the details here while listening to the Beach Boys here.
2. Arizona State University employs some very bright, productive and inspiring people, including this individual whose treatment for a particular infectious disease may be a life-changer.
Hint:
Answer: bio pharmer Charles Arntzen assisted in the development of ZMapp, an injectable tobacco-inspired synthetic serum said to currently be “the most promising drug treatment for people infected with Ebola.” With the the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agreeing to pony-up up to $42 million dollars last fall for sufficient supplies, pharming could become a very lucrative, life-saving business. Read the details here.
3. Blue dress or gold dress?
Hint:
Answer: no, not the dresses again. Let’s focus instead on an optical illusion created by MIT researchers that initially looks like Marilyn Monroe but changes to Albert Einstein as the image gets closer. Advertisers take note: it’s all about how our brain processes details both with respect to distance and time. Take a look here.