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"It took the fresh eyes of a medical student to recognize how much coral resembled human bone."
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How to Grow Human Bones
Coral plays a surprising role in modern bone grafts
nautil.us
November 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
"It took the fresh eyes of a medical student to recognize how much coral resembled human bone."
nautil.us/how-to-grow-...
nautil.us/how-to-grow-...
Galois glimpsed something great but lost the opportunity to build upon it himself. His death launched a 150-year project in which his descendants spent whole decades on problems that might lead nowhere, following threads that might unravel ...
joincolossus.com/article/tast...
joincolossus.com/article/tast...
Taste in Math
How a boy's dying wish launched a 150-year quest to map all the patterns in the universe
joincolossus.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Galois glimpsed something great but lost the opportunity to build upon it himself. His death launched a 150-year project in which his descendants spent whole decades on problems that might lead nowhere, following threads that might unravel ...
joincolossus.com/article/tast...
joincolossus.com/article/tast...
... institutions must forcefully fight back against this kind of bullying. What ultimately doomed the observatory was not that right-wing conspiracists attacked it but that its parent institution, Stanford, failed to defend it
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Algorithm Nation | Jacob Weisberg
Fights about digital filtering tools have turned more and more bitter. That's because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion and mass culture.
www.nybooks.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
... institutions must forcefully fight back against this kind of bullying. What ultimately doomed the observatory was not that right-wing conspiracists attacked it but that its parent institution, Stanford, failed to defend it
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
We have now reached peak stupid ... then again there's always Monday for new stupid.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Nvidia CEO’s Outing Heats Up Korea’s Fried Chicken Stocks
Jensen Huang’s midas touch extends to Korean fried chicken.
www.bloomberg.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
We have now reached peak stupid ... then again there's always Monday for new stupid.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A real indictment of the media that @arstechnica.com is the one that gives the clearest headline on the ridiculous Tylenol-autism noise.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
If things in America weren’t stupid enough, Texas is suing Tylenol maker
Texas sues Tylenol maker over unproven claim the pain medicine causes autism.
arstechnica.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
A real indictment of the media that @arstechnica.com is the one that gives the clearest headline on the ridiculous Tylenol-autism noise.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
"When the elephants fight, the grass suffers" We are truly stuck between rock and hard place.
web.getmatter.com/entry/104499...
web.getmatter.com/entry/104499...
October 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"When the elephants fight, the grass suffers" We are truly stuck between rock and hard place.
web.getmatter.com/entry/104499...
web.getmatter.com/entry/104499...
"I n essence, obstacle parenting is about cultivating focus and endurance, two skills lost in the outsourcing and immediacy of newer technologies."
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thewalrus.ca/my-job-as-a-...
My Job as a Parent Is to Make My Kids’ Lives a Little Harder | The Walrus
Obstacle parenting is about cultivating focus and endurance, two skills lost in the ChatGPT era
thewalrus.ca
September 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"I n essence, obstacle parenting is about cultivating focus and endurance, two skills lost in the outsourcing and immediacy of newer technologies."
thewalrus.ca/my-job-as-a-...
thewalrus.ca/my-job-as-a-...
"To stay on the path of Moore’s Law, we estimate it needs $15 billion to $25 billion, and it is not clear who will supply that. " Crazy thing is that in today's world this is small money.
d2d.substack.com/p/d2d-contd-...
d2d.substack.com/p/d2d-contd-...
D2D Cont'd: Intel and the Foundry State of Play
A deep dive into Intel and the current state of semiconductor foundries
d2d.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"To stay on the path of Moore’s Law, we estimate it needs $15 billion to $25 billion, and it is not clear who will supply that. " Crazy thing is that in today's world this is small money.
d2d.substack.com/p/d2d-contd-...
d2d.substack.com/p/d2d-contd-...
"In 1997, after 16 years of learning and blending, she became the first female Master Blender in the spirits industry" Caribbean folks standing tall.
www.standard.co.uk/going-out/fo...
www.standard.co.uk/going-out/fo...
Meet Dr. Joy Spence, the woman who rewrote the rules of rum
A chemist by training, Dr Joy Spence has been the guardian angel of perhaps the world’s most exclusive rum. Douglas Blyde reports
www.standard.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"In 1997, after 16 years of learning and blending, she became the first female Master Blender in the spirits industry" Caribbean folks standing tall.
www.standard.co.uk/going-out/fo...
www.standard.co.uk/going-out/fo...
"America’s “unique advantage” is relentless in grabbing power for himself, even from those who debase themselves before him. In the long run, these deluded CEOs may realize this isn’t realpolitik. It’s a suicide pact."
www.wired.com/story/silico...
www.wired.com/story/silico...
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
www.wired.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
"America’s “unique advantage” is relentless in grabbing power for himself, even from those who debase themselves before him. In the long run, these deluded CEOs may realize this isn’t realpolitik. It’s a suicide pact."
www.wired.com/story/silico...
www.wired.com/story/silico...
Talk about round-tripping of money. So Nvidia converts balance sheet cash directly to revenue growth. Does OpenAi still develop its own chip to displace some of its reliance on Nvidia?
www.ft.com/content/d3ca...
www.ft.com/content/d3ca...
Nvidia to invest up to $100bn in OpenAI
Partnership will support huge build-out of data centres for artificial intelligence
www.ft.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Talk about round-tripping of money. So Nvidia converts balance sheet cash directly to revenue growth. Does OpenAi still develop its own chip to displace some of its reliance on Nvidia?
www.ft.com/content/d3ca...
www.ft.com/content/d3ca...
"in reality, K-Pop success has little to do with self-actualisation or dream-following. The Korean pop industry more often seems like a demented cross between Soviet Olympic gymnastics programs and the Mickey Mouse Club."
www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025...
The dark heart of KPop Demon Hunters
Netflix’s most popular film conceals an unnerving, dark reality.
www.newstatesman.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"in reality, K-Pop success has little to do with self-actualisation or dream-following. The Korean pop industry more often seems like a demented cross between Soviet Olympic gymnastics programs and the Mickey Mouse Club."
www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025...
What's that Napoleonic expression of preferring lucky generals over merely skilled ones:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anguilla: The Caribbean island making millions from the AI boom
Anguilla has the internet domain .ai and is earning a fortune selling the address to tech firms.
www.bbc.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
What's that Napoleonic expression of preferring lucky generals over merely skilled ones:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"But simply building the robots is arguably the easiest part of scaling humanoids, says Melonee Wise, who served as chief product officer at Agility Robotics until this month. “The bigger problem is demand"
spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-rob...
spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-rob...
Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype
It takes more than building a humanoid robot to build a humanoid robot product.
spectrum.ieee.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"But simply building the robots is arguably the easiest part of scaling humanoids, says Melonee Wise, who served as chief product officer at Agility Robotics until this month. “The bigger problem is demand"
spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-rob...
spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-rob...
"Nor is the claim of collective self-defense, invoked in a statement by White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly, likely to save the United States’ strike from illegality."
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/10/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/10/t...
Outlawry in the Caribbean
Trump’s execution of drug smugglers by drone is barbaric even by 19th-century legal standards.
foreignpolicy.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"Nor is the claim of collective self-defense, invoked in a statement by White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly, likely to save the United States’ strike from illegality."
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/10/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/10/t...
I guess better late than never on this one FT? Now if could only get someone in power to acknowledge this.
www.ft.com/content/470b...
www.ft.com/content/470b...
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say scholars
International Association of Genocide Scholars joins growing number of experts warning that Israel has committed war crimes
www.ft.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I guess better late than never on this one FT? Now if could only get someone in power to acknowledge this.
www.ft.com/content/470b...
www.ft.com/content/470b...
What's that expression, never meet your heroes? I guess people are complicated "I do remember an occasion when I actually picked her up and threw her on the bed."
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Steven Shapin · Through the Trapdoor: Roger Penrose’s Puzzles
Stephen Hawking may have been a genius, but ‘Roger Penrose’s insights seem to stem from some superhuman life-form...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
What's that expression, never meet your heroes? I guess people are complicated "I do remember an occasion when I actually picked her up and threw her on the bed."
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
"Although he isn’t usually generous with sharing credit for his successes, even Musk admits that the Obama administration rescued SpaceX. Burning through cash and crashing test rockets, his company was nearing collapse."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline
The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.
www.theatlantic.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"Although he isn’t usually generous with sharing credit for his successes, even Musk admits that the Obama administration rescued SpaceX. Burning through cash and crashing test rockets, his company was nearing collapse."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
“In 2011, the inflation-adjusted price of an average EV battery was more than $1,000 per kilowatt-hour (kWh). By 2023, that figure had dropped to $139 per kWh.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Battery prices are falling, so why are electric cars still so expensive?
Policies incentivizing electrified transport don’t seem to be working. Here’s what we need to do.
www.nature.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“In 2011, the inflation-adjusted price of an average EV battery was more than $1,000 per kilowatt-hour (kWh). By 2023, that figure had dropped to $139 per kWh.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Goldman Sachs Research projects that the levelized cost of electricity for the average SMR could be less than $100/megawatt-hour, whereas traditional reactors typically see levelized cost of electricity in the region of $125/MWh."
www.goldmansachs.com/insights/art...
www.goldmansachs.com/insights/art...
www.goldmansachs.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"Goldman Sachs Research projects that the levelized cost of electricity for the average SMR could be less than $100/megawatt-hour, whereas traditional reactors typically see levelized cost of electricity in the region of $125/MWh."
www.goldmansachs.com/insights/art...
www.goldmansachs.com/insights/art...
Yikes: 'Only 9.3% made it to 70 with “intact” cognitive, mental and physical function and no chronic diseases.'
agingwithstrength.substack.com/p/harvards-a...
agingwithstrength.substack.com/p/harvards-a...
Harvard's aging study's dark surprise
And a color-coded food & beverage chart showing the best and worst longevity foods.
agingwithstrength.substack.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Yikes: 'Only 9.3% made it to 70 with “intact” cognitive, mental and physical function and no chronic diseases.'
agingwithstrength.substack.com/p/harvards-a...
agingwithstrength.substack.com/p/harvards-a...
"If summoning these magnificent technologies incurs the death of our social lives, a permanent surge of anxiety, and the long-term demise of deep friendships, then we’ll have built ourselves a glittering dungeon of insularity and called it progress."
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-...
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-...
The Death of Partying in the U.S.A.—and Why It Matters
Young Americans today spend 70 percent less time attending or hosting parties than they did at the beginning of the 21st century. Why?
www.derekthompson.org
August 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"If summoning these magnificent technologies incurs the death of our social lives, a permanent surge of anxiety, and the long-term demise of deep friendships, then we’ll have built ourselves a glittering dungeon of insularity and called it progress."
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-...
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-...
"being an expert and conversing with an LLM — or, as an incredible number of scientists and science communicators can attest to, fielding emails from laypersons who’ve been having “vibe physics” conversations with LLMs — easily reveals their limitations"
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
Why "vibe physics" is the ultimate example of AI slop
The conversation you're having with an LLM about groundbreaking new ideas in theoretical physics is completely meritless. Here's why.
bigthink.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"being an expert and conversing with an LLM — or, as an incredible number of scientists and science communicators can attest to, fielding emails from laypersons who’ve been having “vibe physics” conversations with LLMs — easily reveals their limitations"
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
bigthink.com/starts-with-...