To celebrate the International Year of #Quantum, we're doing a series of articles about quantum effects that are so weird, they make superposition and entanglement seem almost ordinary. First up, for #WorldQuantumDay, is the quantum Zeno effect: physicsworld.com/a/the-quantu... 🧪⚛️

This Monday, orange is the new black.

What are countries like Côte d'Ivoire supposed to do? 90% of their exports to the U.S. are cocoa beans and natural rubber - can you build those behind the tariff wall?

No.

My latest for @piie.com on the disaster these #tariffs may mean for many resource-dependent developing economies.

Loving playing with the new Chinese AI app, DeepSeek. It rather sweetly comes up with the answer …and then has second thoughts 😂😂

The rise in retailers using gig apps to hire workers as freelancers rather than staff is extremely worrying. Shop workers end up losing out on significant employment rights.

It's good to see these firms listening to our advice and ending their use of the practice.

Starmer: "I think only a few months ago it would have been unthinkable for the things that have been said about Jess Philips without all political parties and the leader of the opposition to call it out in terms...to condemn it..."

I have deleted my X/Twitter account. I urge others to do the same.

It can no longer pretend to be anything other than a danger and harm to our democracy. My full statement is below:

Worth marvelling for a moment at the different political world that was Carter’s 1976 win. The last gasps of an old order.

Vividly recall many on so-called progressive wing of politics being hyper-critical of Blair. We finished up with something much worse post-2010. Same pattern manifesting itself re: Starmer. This time, that risks a political outcome even worse post-2029.

Hugely enjoying this history of Watergate by Garrett Graff. It's v predictable to find echoes of the 45th and 47th President here and mostly inaccurate: Nixon's team was more villainous, surely, in their plotting, murder discussions, the actual gangsterism. At the same time, he was serious 1/...

The former Government decided not to defend democracy through amending campaign finance laws. Should be a quick win for the new labour gov if they prioritise this.

I remember reading this when the book came out and thinking "Nah, way too pessimistic".

Now the incoming US Health Secretary doesn't think HIV causes AIDS.

Russia planned to murder journalists in Europe. “The spies followed Grozev to Vienna in Austria, Montenegro and Valencia in Spain. They discussed killing him, kidnapping him and taking him to Moscow, and infiltrating Bellingcat, the court was told.” www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

So in the last 24 hours on here I’ve had my first pornbot, my first freak with pictures of me all over their profile & my first twerp claiming I voted Tory in 2019. Will be interesting to see how well the block function functions.

I know we're not allowed to call Reform people thick xenophobes and that we must try to understand them instead. But if we were allowed to call them thick xenophobes that's how I would describe Andrea Jenkyns.

This will get next to no media coverage.

The beginnings of the coalition of the willing …

Musk is playing with fire here. Flirting with fascist language & likely encouraging threats to life against former gov’t officials. Deeply dangerous man at heart of US gov’t. Has no official power but could well end up getting people hurt.

James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.