Adam Frank
@adamfrank4.bsky.social
Astrophysicist. Author of The Little Book of Aliens. Stuff shows up at The Atlantic, NYTimes, Big Think, etc. The Ramones, the Mets and lots of video games.
My @forbes.com piece on the approaching Winter Superstorm and what it should remind us about the Earth.
We don't need to save it, we need to be scared sh&tless of it.
www.forbes.com/sites/adamfr...
We don't need to save it, we need to be scared sh&tless of it.
www.forbes.com/sites/adamfr...
The Winter Superstorm Reminds Us That Earth Is A God.
The Earth channels cosmic power in the form of solar energy. The coming winter superstorm shows just what havoc that power can unleash,
www.forbes.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
My @forbes.com piece on the approaching Winter Superstorm and what it should remind us about the Earth.
We don't need to save it, we need to be scared sh&tless of it.
www.forbes.com/sites/adamfr...
We don't need to save it, we need to be scared sh&tless of it.
www.forbes.com/sites/adamfr...
Speaking of the Institute for Arts and Ideas I am excited to be part of their HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN festival this May in Hay England.
I love that it's billed as THE WORLD'S LARGEST PHILOSOPHY & MUSIC FESTIVAL. Hell yeah!
howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay
I love that it's billed as THE WORLD'S LARGEST PHILOSOPHY & MUSIC FESTIVAL. Hell yeah!
howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay
HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2026
HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2026 brings a weekend packed with experiences unlike any other UK festival to Hay-on-Wye this May. Join us for a Bank Holiday filled with music, ideas, comedy, and much, much mor...
howthelightgetsin.org
January 20, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Speaking of the Institute for Arts and Ideas I am excited to be part of their HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN festival this May in Hay England.
I love that it's billed as THE WORLD'S LARGEST PHILOSOPHY & MUSIC FESTIVAL. Hell yeah!
howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay
I love that it's billed as THE WORLD'S LARGEST PHILOSOPHY & MUSIC FESTIVAL. Hell yeah!
howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay
Very excited to be part of this Feb 2 debate via Institute of Art and Ideas ( @iai.tv )with Micheal Levin
Science Beyond the Physical: Is materialism holding science back?
iai.tv/live/science...
Science Beyond the Physical: Is materialism holding science back?
iai.tv/live/science...
COMING SOON: IAI Live February
From the origins of life to the limits of consciousness, from AI to the future of democracy — the world’s biggest questions demand bold new thinking. At IAI.tv, philosophers, scientists, artists, and ...
iai.tv
January 19, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Very excited to be part of this Feb 2 debate via Institute of Art and Ideas ( @iai.tv )with Micheal Levin
Science Beyond the Physical: Is materialism holding science back?
iai.tv/live/science...
Science Beyond the Physical: Is materialism holding science back?
iai.tv/live/science...
With so many constellations of new communications (wireless) satellites launching over the next decades (hundreds of thousands) one wonders if we are about to make LEO unusable.
January 18, 2026 at 7:20 PM
With so many constellations of new communications (wireless) satellites launching over the next decades (hundreds of thousands) one wonders if we are about to make LEO unusable.
“Atomic-6 is positioning Space Armor as an alternative to those metallic shields, arguing that advances in composite materials can reduce mass while improving performance.”
Cool
Cool
January 16, 2026 at 11:55 PM
“Atomic-6 is positioning Space Armor as an alternative to those metallic shields, arguing that advances in composite materials can reduce mass while improving performance.”
Cool
Cool
"I want to begin a brief discussion about this question: Can you live a life with a deep spiritual practice that is also committed to the beauty and power of science? Based on my own experience the answer is a resounding yes."
Part 1: Which words?
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/how-to-liv...
Part 1: Which words?
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/how-to-liv...
How To Live A Spiritual Life In A Scientific World. Part 1.
Science rules but there's always more.
www.everymansuniverse.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:21 PM
"I want to begin a brief discussion about this question: Can you live a life with a deep spiritual practice that is also committed to the beauty and power of science? Based on my own experience the answer is a resounding yes."
Part 1: Which words?
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/how-to-liv...
Part 1: Which words?
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/how-to-liv...
Plumes of Water from an Icy Moon, Avengers Doomsday and Satellite Dogfights.
Oh and the greatest beat in the history of Hip-Hop because... why not?
This weeks News Round-up from Everyman's Universe.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/plumes-of-...
Oh and the greatest beat in the history of Hip-Hop because... why not?
This weeks News Round-up from Everyman's Universe.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/plumes-of-...
Plumes of Water from an Icy Moon, Avengers Doomsday and Satellite Dogfights.
Stories for you about Cosmos and Culture
www.everymansuniverse.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Plumes of Water from an Icy Moon, Avengers Doomsday and Satellite Dogfights.
Oh and the greatest beat in the history of Hip-Hop because... why not?
This weeks News Round-up from Everyman's Universe.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/plumes-of-...
Oh and the greatest beat in the history of Hip-Hop because... why not?
This weeks News Round-up from Everyman's Universe.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/plumes-of-...
Nice piece!
The Signal Beneath the Noise: Where Physics Currently Stops Short @theatlantic.com @adamfrank4.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/fogameir...
open.substack.com/pub/fogameir...
The Signal Beneath the Noise: Where Physics Currently Stops Short
Reflecting on a fascinating article in The Atlantic
open.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Nice piece!
"OpenAI announced that users will soon be able to upload their medical data into its bot ChatGPT for more personal health recommendations"
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
January 8, 2026 at 9:35 PM
"OpenAI announced that users will soon be able to upload their medical data into its bot ChatGPT for more personal health recommendations"
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
A wee discussion of panspermia. Are star systems swapping spit (and life)?
This week's Everyman's Universe post.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/maybe-eart...
This week's Everyman's Universe post.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/maybe-eart...
Maybe Earth-Life Didn’t Start on Earth?
Panspermia may sound icky but it's a viable theory for the origin of life.
www.everymansuniverse.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:01 PM
A wee discussion of panspermia. Are star systems swapping spit (and life)?
This week's Everyman's Universe post.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/maybe-eart...
This week's Everyman's Universe post.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/maybe-eart...
Whoa!
The Everyman's Universe newsletter went from 0 to 4000 subscribers this year. Thanks everyone. Here's what to expect in 2026
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/what-s-com...
The Everyman's Universe newsletter went from 0 to 4000 subscribers this year. Thanks everyone. Here's what to expect in 2026
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/what-s-com...
What’s Coming in 2026
Science, Culture, Wonder, Promise, Risk.
www.everymansuniverse.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Whoa!
The Everyman's Universe newsletter went from 0 to 4000 subscribers this year. Thanks everyone. Here's what to expect in 2026
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/what-s-com...
The Everyman's Universe newsletter went from 0 to 4000 subscribers this year. Thanks everyone. Here's what to expect in 2026
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/what-s-com...
My first post for @Forbes
Anti-predictions for 2026. Stuff people say will happen that ain't gonna happen: UFOs as Aliens; AGI; 3I/Atlas
forbes.com/sites/adamfr...
Anti-predictions for 2026. Stuff people say will happen that ain't gonna happen: UFOs as Aliens; AGI; 3I/Atlas
forbes.com/sites/adamfr...
December 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
My first post for @Forbes
Anti-predictions for 2026. Stuff people say will happen that ain't gonna happen: UFOs as Aliens; AGI; 3I/Atlas
forbes.com/sites/adamfr...
Anti-predictions for 2026. Stuff people say will happen that ain't gonna happen: UFOs as Aliens; AGI; 3I/Atlas
forbes.com/sites/adamfr...
I’d say experience is the precondition for pattern recognition. Phenomenal presence is prior to sensorial specifics (I quess 😀… good question).
Real question: how is experience different from pattern recognition? How is the Lebenswelt different from the Umwelt, i.e., the set of patterns a system can recognize?
December 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I’d say experience is the precondition for pattern recognition. Phenomenal presence is prior to sensorial specifics (I quess 😀… good question).
We only had about 1200 words to tackle this big beautiful idea.
If you want a deeper dive then read my @noemamag.com
piece.
noemamag.com/why-science-...
Or better yet, read our book "The Blind Spot. Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience"
lareviewofbooks.org/article/what...
If you want a deeper dive then read my @noemamag.com
piece.
noemamag.com/why-science-...
Or better yet, read our book "The Blind Spot. Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience"
lareviewofbooks.org/article/what...
December 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
We only had about 1200 words to tackle this big beautiful idea.
If you want a deeper dive then read my @noemamag.com
piece.
noemamag.com/why-science-...
Or better yet, read our book "The Blind Spot. Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience"
lareviewofbooks.org/article/what...
If you want a deeper dive then read my @noemamag.com
piece.
noemamag.com/why-science-...
Or better yet, read our book "The Blind Spot. Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience"
lareviewofbooks.org/article/what...
Oh my god this nails it completely.
December 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Oh my god this nails it completely.
Continents and oceans: we both. But it didn’t have to be this way and on most planets it probably isn’t. That’s important because truly complex life may need dry land to get going.
Today's Everyman's Universe post.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/freaky-ear...
Today's Everyman's Universe post.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/freaky-ear...
Freaky Earth. Does Water Make Us Alone In The Cosmos?
Earth has both land and water. That might be really, really uncommon.
www.everymansuniverse.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Continents and oceans: we both. But it didn’t have to be this way and on most planets it probably isn’t. That’s important because truly complex life may need dry land to get going.
Today's Everyman's Universe post.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/freaky-ear...
Today's Everyman's Universe post.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/freaky-ear...
"The spectral similarities indicate that 3I/ATLAS may be a primitive carbonaceous object, likely enriched in native metal and undergoing significant aqueous alteration during its approach to the Sun."
Not a friggin alien spaceship
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19112
Not a friggin alien spaceship
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19112
Spectrophotometric evidence for a metal-bearing, carbonaceous, and pristine interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
3I/ATLAS is only the second confirmed cometary object known to enter the Solar System from interstellar space. Cosmogonic considerations suggest that this body may possess relatively high tensile stre...
arxiv.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"The spectral similarities indicate that 3I/ATLAS may be a primitive carbonaceous object, likely enriched in native metal and undergoing significant aqueous alteration during its approach to the Sun."
Not a friggin alien spaceship
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19112
Not a friggin alien spaceship
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19112
"This correspondence places 3I closer to barely- or non-active 1I/Oumuamua than primitive, ice rich 2I/Borisov, suggesting that ISOs are often highly thermally processed before ejection into the ISM."
Not a friggin alien spaceship.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.07318
Not a friggin alien spaceship.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.07318
SPHEREx Pre-Perihelion Mapping of $\mathrm{H_2O}$, $\mathrm{CO_2}$, and $\mathrm{CO}$ in Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
From 01- to 15-Aug-2025 UT, the SPHEREx spacecraft observed interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. Using $R = 40$-$130$ spectrophotometry at $λ= 0.7$-$5μ$m, light curves, spectra, and imaging of 3I were obtain...
arxiv.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"This correspondence places 3I closer to barely- or non-active 1I/Oumuamua than primitive, ice rich 2I/Borisov, suggesting that ISOs are often highly thermally processed before ejection into the ISM."
Not a friggin alien spaceship.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.07318
Not a friggin alien spaceship.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.07318
My @theatlantic.com piece on the emerging new "Physics of Life". Complexity science, information theory, network theory... a whole new trans-disciplinary way of asking an ancient question.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
A Physics Renaissance Is Coming
The field can no longer ignore the fundamental mystery posed by living things.
www.theatlantic.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My @theatlantic.com piece on the emerging new "Physics of Life". Complexity science, information theory, network theory... a whole new trans-disciplinary way of asking an ancient question.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Right, you have check for the hosts. We are the real "Blind Spot Podcast". Not those other posers 😀 (no offense intended to those other posers).
Well I just subscribe now, there's literally six blind spot podcasts.
December 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Right, you have check for the hosts. We are the real "Blind Spot Podcast". Not those other posers 😀 (no offense intended to those other posers).
The Blind Spot Podcast was an Instant Hit in 2025 according to
Spotify. Have you been tuning in to our conversations about Life, The Universe and Everything? It's science from a different perspective.
The band = me, @evanthompson.bsky.social, Marcelo Gleiser.
Spotify. Have you been tuning in to our conversations about Life, The Universe and Everything? It's science from a different perspective.
The band = me, @evanthompson.bsky.social, Marcelo Gleiser.
December 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Blind Spot Podcast was an Instant Hit in 2025 according to
Spotify. Have you been tuning in to our conversations about Life, The Universe and Everything? It's science from a different perspective.
The band = me, @evanthompson.bsky.social, Marcelo Gleiser.
Spotify. Have you been tuning in to our conversations about Life, The Universe and Everything? It's science from a different perspective.
The band = me, @evanthompson.bsky.social, Marcelo Gleiser.
I LOVE the show so far. That's a cool question. Would it be a major evolutionary transition? In the classic sense or in the "Hard Steps Problem" sense? As you say, it depends on what the consequences are on a planetary level.
I was wondering what you thought of this show! Also whether the joining could qualify as a major transition in evolution or individuality. Not sure if that works on a planetary level, or if this hive mind reproduces at all (are they now transmitting a signal like the one they received?).
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I LOVE the show so far. That's a cool question. Would it be a major evolutionary transition? In the classic sense or in the "Hard Steps Problem" sense? As you say, it depends on what the consequences are on a planetary level.
What is it like to be in a hive mind? Are you a slave to the larger intelligence? Or can you still retain your individuality while being immersed in the warm thoughts of collective?
Today's Everyman's Universe post on #Pluribus
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/pluribus-a...
Today's Everyman's Universe post on #Pluribus
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/pluribus-a...
Pluribus: Are Hive Minds More Fun?
Freaky Hive Mind or Lonely Human. What’s better?
www.everymansuniverse.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
What is it like to be in a hive mind? Are you a slave to the larger intelligence? Or can you still retain your individuality while being immersed in the warm thoughts of collective?
Today's Everyman's Universe post on #Pluribus
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/pluribus-a...
Today's Everyman's Universe post on #Pluribus
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/pluribus-a...
Really looking forward to this meeting.
Join us for an exciting workshop on the 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 this week!
Dec 10-12, Hybrid Format
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
A huge thank you to all of our wonderful speakers! 🙏
👇 #ConSci
Dec 10-12, Hybrid Format
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
A huge thank you to all of our wonderful speakers! 🙏
👇 #ConSci
December 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Really looking forward to this meeting.
As you'll see from the post, I am mostly talking about Earth orbit. I'll do another post on cis-lunar etc later.
We haven't even explored Titan yet! Slow that commercial roll 😉
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As you'll see from the post, I am mostly talking about Earth orbit. I'll do another post on cis-lunar etc later.