IMHO, the best thing about webinarsa feature not replicated by live eventsis the chat room. Chat offers the thrill of passing notes in class, but with the explicit validation of the teacher. Last months virtual Summit on Museums and Creative Aging was no exception. During the keynote, discussions and panels, participants shared a wealth of observations, affirmations, and resources with the 400-some people in our virtual room. It has taken me some time to go through the chat transcripts and track down linkswith this post Im sharing the consolidated wisdom of that crowd. Elizabeth Merritt, VP Strategic Foresight and Founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums, American Alliance of Museums.

Attendees were delighted with the video shorts, some produced by Aroha Philanthropies, some by AARP, that ran between the main talks, and asked for links. Here you go:

Aroha Philanthropies has commissioned a great collection of videos about the practice of Creative Aging, most around three minutes long, featuring staff from the Heard Museum, Louisiana State Museum, and the Craft Contemporary, among others. During the Summit we aired:

Creative Aging: The Essentials

Creative Aging: Untapped Opportunity

Creative Aging: Isolated to Connected

From the folks at AARP we shared:

No Donuts For You! Fake Age Limit Targets Ageism: a Candid Camera-type setup in which, well, I wont spoil it. Just watch.

AARP What Age Do Millennials Think Is Old? To file under, its only funny because its true.

Not shown during the Summit itself, but recommended by a participant, Baile de los Viejitos: The Dance of the Elders, from the 2015 Da de los Muertos Festival at the National Museum of the American Indian.

(Regarding videos of the Summit itselfeveryone who preregistered for the free Summit received a link to view the recording, and videos of the presentations will go up on the AAM web site as member resources later this fall.)

Susie Wilkening joined us to discuss her Data Story on Older Adult Museum-Goers, reporting that, contrary to many expectations, adults over the age of 50 are the least likely age group to visit museums, and summarizing what museums could do to better serve this demographic. (You can find all of Susies excellent Data Story infographics on the Wilkening Consulting website.)

Creativity and Aging Study: The Impact of Professionally Conducted Cultural Programs on Older Adults, NEA 2006. This seminal research launched the NEAs work on creative aging by measuring the benefits of professionally conducted, community-based cultural programs for the health and well-being of people aged 65 and over. The research was directed by Dr. Gene Cohen at the Center on Aging, Health & Humanities at The George Washington University.

Interventions to Reduce Ageism Against Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. AM J Public Health 2019. This metadata analysis examined 63 studies to compare the effectiveness of three approaches to combatting ageism: education, intergenerational contact, and a combination of those two. (Spoiler alert: the combination approach worked best.)

One participant recommended keeping an eye on Culture + Community in a Time of Transformation, a research project being conducted by Slover Linett Audience Research and LaPlaca Cohen, noting that future data mining may include analysis of how different age cohorts interacted with arts and culture organizations during the pandemic, including stats on digital engagement. (The project has already published a report analyzing the data to illuminate BIPOC perspectives.)

The exhibit Building Bridges: Breaking Barriers, part 1 and part 2, hosted by Ruths Table, aims to help break barriers in perception by recognizing the unique agility and skill possessed by professional older artists at the pinnacle of their careers, their continued value and contribution to the arts and society, leading us to building bridges of an intergenerational nature.

The Minneapolis Institute of Art is working with The Cultural Wellness Center (CWC) and their artists and scholars to offer art-making around the theme of legacy for MIAs existing audiences and community members of African heritage served by CWC. (This came up in a discussion around how recruiting community culture bearers as teaching artists was a way for museums to share power and authority.)

The Frye Art Museum in Seattle offers a suite of creative aging programs and related resources to explore the rich potential of aging and offer opportunities to impact the communitys health and wellbeing, with an emphasis on serving adults living with dementia. (You might also be interested in related articles on their Frye from Home blog.)

Here are some resources and links related to specific segments of the Summit:

The Summit keynote Creating Belonging to Combat Anti-Asian Hate and Protect our Elders was delivered by Daphne Kwok, Vice President of Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Asian American & Pacific Islander Audience Strategy at AARP. One of the panelists in the discussion following the keynote was Edward Tepporn, Executive Director of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, and attendees recommended the Immigrant Voices archive maintain by the Foundation, pointing in particular to My Sorrowful Journey to Gold Mountain, a memory recorded in 2018 with Calvin Ong, who came through Angel Island as a 10-year-old in 1937. Other resources mentioned in chat during this panel were:

Annie Montgomery and Maura OMalley of Lifetime Arts presented a workshop on The Societal and Personal Impacts of Creative Aging, during which they shared a lot of resources, including:

In addition to these materials shared during the Summit, you may want to browse the compilation of museums and creative aging resources on the Alliances website, not least, Marjorie Schwarzers report, Museums and Creative Aging: A Healthful Partnership. Please add your own recommendations in the comments below, or by tweeting links and tagging @futureofmuseums #creativeaging. Thank you!

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Yield10 Bioscience Inc (NASDAQ: YTEN) shares gained 7.47%, or $0.47 per share, to close Wednesday at $6.76. After opening the day at $6.22, shares of Yield10 fluctuated between $6.86 and $6.26. 53,282 shares traded hands an increase from their 30 day average of 42,011. Wednesday's activity brought Yield10s market cap to $32,930,143.

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Capgemini is a $24 billion global tech services company that operates in nearly 50 countries. It supports companies with everything from creating software development and creating applications to maintaining desktops by harnessing cloud, data, AI, connectivity, and digital engineering. Krishnan noted that, while many pre-digital systems couldnt capture someones ESG impact, Capgemini now is fast-tracking the tech for it.

Capgeminis new products require clients to state their ESG values, so its tech can measure how well those are reflected in their portfolios.

Weve designed a very personalized product, which goes to the heart of what ESG means to each and every individual, said Krishnan. We can create those streams of portfolios, making it easy for them to track the data and portfolio performance in terms of how the ESG market is behaving.

Capgemini works with the advisors to design a plan to capture their customers ESG attributes and improve their ESG attribute segmentation. Clients can then answer a questionnaire, stating what they like, and want, in an ESG. Then, using AI and natural language processing, the app looks for key themes and compares what customers said they want to what is in their portfolio. It points out discrepancies, so advisors can get a portrait of whats there and needs to be aligned. People can also download their portfolio on the app and check it daily to take corrective action.

So, a lot of people are able to look at their customer with a 360-degree view in terms of what theyre all about rather than just from an academic perspective, said Krishnan, because at the end of the day, it is a very personal choice in terms of what customers want to make the difference.

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Palantir's (NYSE:PLTR) stock surged on Aug. 12 after the data mining and analytics company posted its second-quarter earnings. It beat Wall Street's estimates on the top and bottom lines, then provided a rosy outlook for the third quarter that surpassed analysts' expectations.

Should investors consider buying Palantir, which has been a volatile stock since its direct listing last September? Let's weigh three reasons to buy the stock -- against one reason to sell it -- to decide.

Palantir's second-quarter revenue rose 49% year over year to $376 million, beating estimates by $14.5 million and matching its growth in the first quarter. It closed 62 deals worth $1 million or more, gained 20 new customers, and its average revenue per customer rose 19% year over year to $7.9 million.

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Palantir's government revenue rose 66% to $232 million, while its commercial revenue increased 28% to $144 million. The growth of its government business decelerated slightly from the first quarter, but the growth of its commercial business accelerated significantly.

Revenue Growth (YOY)

FY 2019

FY 2020

Q1 2021

Q2 2021

Government

35%

77%

76%

66%

Commercial

17%

22%

19%

28%

Total

25%

47%

49%

49%

Data source: Palantir. YOY = year over year.

The commercial segment's acceleration counters the bearish argument that Palantir will struggle to expand its commercial business to reduce its dependence on government contracts. Government contracts, the bears often argue, have less long-term growth potential than commercial contracts.

Palantir mainly attributed its commercial growth to the U.S. market. Its U.S. commercial revenue surged 90% year over year, accelerating from the segment's 72% growth in the first quarter of 2021.

Palantir remains unprofitable on a GAAP basis, and its net loss widened year over year in the second quarter, from $110.5 million to $138.6 million.

However, its adjusted gross margin, which excludes its stock-based compensation and other one-time expenses, expanded from 80% to 82%. Its adjusted operating margin jumped from 11% to 31%.

Those expanding margins suggest Palantir has plenty of pricing power in the competitive data mining and analytics market, and that its experience with the U.S. government -- for which it aims to become the "default operating system" -- is impressing large enterprise customers.

Palantir is also profitable on an adjusted EBITDA basis. Its adjusted EBITDA nearly quadrupled year over year to $121.5 million, which boosted its adjusted EBITDA margin from 13% to 32%. Its adjusted earnings of $0.04 per share also beat Wall Street's estimates by a penny.

Palantir expects to generate $385 million in revenue in the third quarter, which surpasses the consensus estimate of $380 million.

It expects its revenue to rise at least 30% "for 2021 through 2025" -- which suggests it could nearly quadruple its annual revenue from $1.09 billion in fiscal 2020 to about $4 billion in fiscal 2025. It also raised its adjusted free cash flow forecast for 2021 from over $150 million to over $300 million.

That confident long-term forecast suggests Palantir's stock might not be as expensive as it initially seems, at about 30 times this year's sales.

Palantir's platform, which gathers data on individuals from disparate sources to make AI-driven decisions, is powerful but controversial.

Palantir's Gotham platform is used by all branches of the U.S. military, as well as government agencies like the FBI, CIA, and ICE. It was even reportedly used to hunt down Osama Bin Laden back in 2011.

ICE uses Palantir's software to track down and report undocumented immigrants in the U.S. That controversial contract sparked protests from activists and Palantir's own employees, while employees at Amazon Web Services -- which hosts Palantir -- called for its shutdown.

Palantir withstood those protests, but it could still face more controversies as investors learn more about its government contracts.

I started a position in Palantir shortly after its direct listing, and sold a third of my shares after it more than tripled during the meme stock rally in January. But I plan to hold on to my remaining shares.

I'm staying bullish on Palantir because it's clearly a "best in breed" player in the data mining, analytics, and security space. Governments will require more of its services to solve domestic and foreign problems, and that hardened reputation will attract a growing number of enterprise customers.

Palantir has set clear goals for the future, and it could easily surpass its 2025 targets as it expands its government and commercial businesses. Those strengths should justify its premium valuation and offset any additional concerns about its more controversial contracts.

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Wild swings in cryptocurrencies will eventually drive bitcoin investors to return to gold, says the executive chairman of gold mining firm Evolution Mining.

Jake Klein said bitcoin still has a "long way to go" before it demonstrates the kind of "longevity and security" that gold has proven to offer investors over the last 70 years.

Cryptocurrencies are "running a massive amount of speculative money," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box Asia" on Thursday.

"I think that the volatility in the crypto space is going to ultimately lead to people coming back to gold," Klein said.

Gold prices fell last week, and analysts say they will likely drop further. Hedge fund manager David Neuhauser told CNBC earlier this week that the decline in gold prices is a "massive buying opportunity" for investors now.

Still, Klein said the two can coexist there are opportunities for gold to "sit alongside" bitcoin, as opposed to bitcoin posing a threat to the precious metal.

Bullish investors view bitcoin as digital gold and a hedge against inflation, expecting the cryptocurrency to appreciate over time.

American investor Tyler Winklevoss, who founded Winklevoss Capital Management as well as Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, said last year that "bitcoin is gold 2.0" and that it will disrupt gold.

Billionaire investor Kevin O'Leary said in April that "bitcoin will always be the 'gold.' Ethereum will always be the 'silver.'"

However, there are also other investors who disagree.

Hedge fund manager Ray Dalio, despite owning an undisclosed amount of bitcoin, said earlier this month: "If you put a gun to my head, and you said, I can only have one, I would choose gold."

Bitcoin topped $48,000 over the weekend the highest level since May. As of Thursday morning during Asia hours, however, it pared some gains to last trade above $44,000, according to CoinDesk data.

The weekend spike followed a sell-off in June and July, when bitcoin fell below $30,000.

Gold prices have also been swinging between gains and losses this year. From levels above $1,900 in January, prices fell to above $1,700 in March.

In June, the precious metal spiked to nearly $1,900 again, before paring gains to trade above $1,700 in August.

CNBC's Arjun Kharpal and Jade Scipioni contributed to this report.

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