Stephen Morrow
@carpenter512.bsky.social
Nonfiction book editor across the sciences
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Join our authors at the @broadinstitute on 30th October 2025
💻 Do bring your devices to explore these fascinating Macroscopes!
📚 Copies of Atlas of Macroscopes will be available for purchase at the event from the The MIT Press Bookstore.
@mitpress.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org
💻 Do bring your devices to explore these fascinating Macroscopes!
📚 Copies of Atlas of Macroscopes will be available for purchase at the event from the The MIT Press Bookstore.
@mitpress.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Join our authors at the @broadinstitute on 30th October 2025
💻 Do bring your devices to explore these fascinating Macroscopes!
📚 Copies of Atlas of Macroscopes will be available for purchase at the event from the The MIT Press Bookstore.
@mitpress.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org
💻 Do bring your devices to explore these fascinating Macroscopes!
📚 Copies of Atlas of Macroscopes will be available for purchase at the event from the The MIT Press Bookstore.
@mitpress.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org
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Videos from the Natural Philosophy Symposium are coming online at last! We start with the opening plenary by David Chalmers @davidchalmers.bsky.social: Can There Be a Mathematical Theory of Consciousness? Commentary by Ryan Smith.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsve...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsve...
David Chalmers, Can There Be a Mathematical Theory of Consciousness? | Natural Philosophy Symposium
YouTube video by Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum
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October 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Videos from the Natural Philosophy Symposium are coming online at last! We start with the opening plenary by David Chalmers @davidchalmers.bsky.social: Can There Be a Mathematical Theory of Consciousness? Commentary by Ryan Smith.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsve...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsve...
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**Reminder of presentation+discussion this Thursday**
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains.
Join the discussion.
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains.
Join the discussion.
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺
Is consciousness tied to biological brains?
Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper!
October 23, noon USA eastern
#neuroskyence
Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
Is consciousness tied to biological brains?
Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper!
October 23, noon USA eastern
#neuroskyence
Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
October 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
**Reminder of presentation+discussion this Thursday**
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains.
Join the discussion.
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains.
Join the discussion.
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For the latest episode of Hacklab, we carried out one of the more fun and stressful hacking experiments of my career: We hacked a casino card shuffler to help me cheat in a game of poker against unsuspecting players in Vegas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ20...
I Cheated At Poker By Hacking A Casino Card Shuffling Machine | Hacklab | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
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October 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For the latest episode of Hacklab, we carried out one of the more fun and stressful hacking experiments of my career: We hacked a casino card shuffler to help me cheat in a game of poker against unsuspecting players in Vegas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ20...
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“Whoever designed the human visual system has a lot to answer for. Maybe not as much as the knee team, or the lower back group, but a lot.”
- @kjhealy.co , making me shoot my afternoon coffee out my nose.
- @kjhealy.co , making me shoot my afternoon coffee out my nose.
September 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
“Whoever designed the human visual system has a lot to answer for. Maybe not as much as the knee team, or the lower back group, but a lot.”
- @kjhealy.co , making me shoot my afternoon coffee out my nose.
- @kjhealy.co , making me shoot my afternoon coffee out my nose.
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I'm headed to Notre Dame next week to give a public lecture on Thursday 9/25 about science writing in an age of all this. Details here: science.nd.edu/events/2025/...
An Evening With Carl Zimmer, science journalist and book author
Carl Zimmer is an award-winning New York Times columnist and author of 15 books about science. His talk, "Science, science communications and science jo...
science.nd.edu
September 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I'm headed to Notre Dame next week to give a public lecture on Thursday 9/25 about science writing in an age of all this. Details here: science.nd.edu/events/2025/...
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Robert Hooke's drawings of objects under the microscope were so beautiful. These are from "Micrographia" in 1665
September 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Robert Hooke's drawings of objects under the microscope were so beautiful. These are from "Micrographia" in 1665
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It's been six months since I started tracking the dire science news in my newsletter. For a long time, it felt like an ominous ocean swell. Now it feels like a breaking wave.
buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...
buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...
September 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It's been six months since I started tracking the dire science news in my newsletter. For a long time, it felt like an ominous ocean swell. Now it feels like a breaking wave.
buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...
buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...
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On the value of fighting battles you think you might lose
@madva.bsky.social and I with some ideas in today's NYT, drawing from our new book, with @dryan149.bsky.social, Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
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@madva.bsky.social and I with some ideas in today's NYT, drawing from our new book, with @dryan149.bsky.social, Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
@mitpress.bsky.social
Opinion | The Texas Democrats Won by Losing
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
On the value of fighting battles you think you might lose
@madva.bsky.social and I with some ideas in today's NYT, drawing from our new book, with @dryan149.bsky.social, Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
@mitpress.bsky.social
@madva.bsky.social and I with some ideas in today's NYT, drawing from our new book, with @dryan149.bsky.social, Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
@mitpress.bsky.social
nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/oop... I bet Stephen Jay Gould would not have approved of the image, but I like to think he would have applauded Madeleine Beekman's THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.
Oops! The Evolutionary Accidents That Made You Human
Author Madeleine Beekman shares 5 key insights from her new book, The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why.
nextbigideaclub.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/oop... I bet Stephen Jay Gould would not have approved of the image, but I like to think he would have applauded Madeleine Beekman's THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.
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Dark energy? Inflaton fields? Eternal inflation? “It is a good time for books that take stock of where we are [in modern cosmology] and that illustrate which puzzles modern physicists choose to take seriously.” — @seanmcarroll.bsky.social
A First Time for Everything | Sean M. Carroll
Scientific theories about the origin of the universe often involve a vigorous give-and-take between speculation and discovery.
buff.ly
August 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Dark energy? Inflaton fields? Eternal inflation? “It is a good time for books that take stock of where we are [in modern cosmology] and that illustrate which puzzles modern physicists choose to take seriously.” — @seanmcarroll.bsky.social
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The new admin strategy for facts and real data is to fire the messenger or demand retraction. That isn't going to work.
August 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The new admin strategy for facts and real data is to fire the messenger or demand retraction. That isn't going to work.
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Three thousand years of backstory: carlzimmer.com/books/airbor...
Airborne, Carl Zimmer
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe Order Now The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it...
carlzimmer.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Three thousand years of backstory: carlzimmer.com/books/airbor...
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Here we are talking about Ada Palmer’s new book and I think I should tag her @adapalmer.bsky.social and her publisher @uchicagopress.bsky.social.
July 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Here we are talking about Ada Palmer’s new book and I think I should tag her @adapalmer.bsky.social and her publisher @uchicagopress.bsky.social.
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How did I get this far in life and _just_ find out that every cube is a multiple of 9, ±1?
1³ = 1 = 0⸱9 +1
2³ = 8 = 1⸱9 -1
3³ = 27 = 3⸱9 +0
4³ = 64 = 7⸱9 +1
5³ = 125 = 14⸱9 -1
6³ = 216 = 24⸱9 +0
7³ = 343 = 38⸱9 +1
Proof is easy: any can be written as (3k-1)³, (3k)³, or (3k+1)³; then just expand.
1³ = 1 = 0⸱9 +1
2³ = 8 = 1⸱9 -1
3³ = 27 = 3⸱9 +0
4³ = 64 = 7⸱9 +1
5³ = 125 = 14⸱9 -1
6³ = 216 = 24⸱9 +0
7³ = 343 = 38⸱9 +1
Proof is easy: any can be written as (3k-1)³, (3k)³, or (3k+1)³; then just expand.
July 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
How did I get this far in life and _just_ find out that every cube is a multiple of 9, ±1?
1³ = 1 = 0⸱9 +1
2³ = 8 = 1⸱9 -1
3³ = 27 = 3⸱9 +0
4³ = 64 = 7⸱9 +1
5³ = 125 = 14⸱9 -1
6³ = 216 = 24⸱9 +0
7³ = 343 = 38⸱9 +1
Proof is easy: any can be written as (3k-1)³, (3k)³, or (3k+1)³; then just expand.
1³ = 1 = 0⸱9 +1
2³ = 8 = 1⸱9 -1
3³ = 27 = 3⸱9 +0
4³ = 64 = 7⸱9 +1
5³ = 125 = 14⸱9 -1
6³ = 216 = 24⸱9 +0
7³ = 343 = 38⸱9 +1
Proof is easy: any can be written as (3k-1)³, (3k)³, or (3k+1)³; then just expand.
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Please enjoy this excerpt from my book Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics on the topic of infinitesimals revisted, exploring diverse issues in nonstandard analysis. www.infinitelymore.xyz/p/infinitesi... #InfinitelyMore #PhilMaths
Infinitesimals revisited
How infinitesimal calculus became rigorous
www.infinitelymore.xyz
July 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Please enjoy this excerpt from my book Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics on the topic of infinitesimals revisted, exploring diverse issues in nonstandard analysis. www.infinitelymore.xyz/p/infinitesi... #InfinitelyMore #PhilMaths
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New paper. Trends in scientific writing. More noun chunks and sensational language. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
June 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
New paper. Trends in scientific writing. More noun chunks and sensational language. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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If you're looking to improve and maintain your health as you age, take a look at Dr. Eric Topol's new book "Super Agers." It's filled with lots of interesting information. One of the best books I've read in a long time 💪
A new review electricrev.net/2025/05/30/e...
An excerpt @science.org
science.org/doi/epdf/10....
A video conversation
youtube.com/watch?v=MueF...
An excerpt @science.org
science.org/doi/epdf/10....
A video conversation
youtube.com/watch?v=MueF...
June 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
If you're looking to improve and maintain your health as you age, take a look at Dr. Eric Topol's new book "Super Agers." It's filled with lots of interesting information. One of the best books I've read in a long time 💪
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The Natural Philosophy Symposium is underway! I had some idea of live-skeeting, but the real-time event is too absorbing.
www.naturalphilosophyhopkins.org/natural-phil...
Anyway, we've had:
(cont)
www.naturalphilosophyhopkins.org/natural-phil...
Anyway, we've had:
(cont)
May 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Natural Philosophy Symposium is underway! I had some idea of live-skeeting, but the real-time event is too absorbing.
www.naturalphilosophyhopkins.org/natural-phil...
Anyway, we've had:
(cont)
www.naturalphilosophyhopkins.org/natural-phil...
Anyway, we've had:
(cont)
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Using new adaptive-optics techniques, researchers have created ultra-high resolution images of the Sun's corona--and the results are astonishing.
This video shows "coronal rain": loops of magnetic plasma arching out from the Sun, cooling, and flowing back down. 🧪🔭
nso.edu/press-releas...
This video shows "coronal rain": loops of magnetic plasma arching out from the Sun, cooling, and flowing back down. 🧪🔭
nso.edu/press-releas...
May 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Using new adaptive-optics techniques, researchers have created ultra-high resolution images of the Sun's corona--and the results are astonishing.
This video shows "coronal rain": loops of magnetic plasma arching out from the Sun, cooling, and flowing back down. 🧪🔭
nso.edu/press-releas...
This video shows "coronal rain": loops of magnetic plasma arching out from the Sun, cooling, and flowing back down. 🧪🔭
nso.edu/press-releas...
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I’m thoroughly enjoying this book. Although the part about biological warfare is terrifying.
May 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I’m thoroughly enjoying this book. Although the part about biological warfare is terrifying.
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Thanks to the @newyorker.com for featuring the new @mitpress.bsky.social THE WEAPONIZATION OF EXPERTISE in their "The Best Books We Read This Week" roundup.
"Their persuasive account illustrates how tentative conclusions proclaimed by the powerful can harden into orthodoxies." -- The New Yorker
"Their persuasive account illustrates how tentative conclusions proclaimed by the powerful can harden into orthodoxies." -- The New Yorker
May 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Thanks to the @newyorker.com for featuring the new @mitpress.bsky.social THE WEAPONIZATION OF EXPERTISE in their "The Best Books We Read This Week" roundup.
"Their persuasive account illustrates how tentative conclusions proclaimed by the powerful can harden into orthodoxies." -- The New Yorker
"Their persuasive account illustrates how tentative conclusions proclaimed by the powerful can harden into orthodoxies." -- The New Yorker