Laura Helmuth
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
Freelance writer, editor, columnist & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
Yes, it was a great talk!
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Yes, it was a great talk!
Wasn't it a fun talk? Love the big fancy letters.
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Wasn't it a fun talk? Love the big fancy letters.
Awww, thank you!
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Awww, thank you!
Watson had a flash of insight at age 25, based on stolen data, about 2 weeks before anybody else. He spent the rest of his too-long career claiming to be a genius about subjects he knew fuck all about.
November 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Watson had a flash of insight at age 25, based on stolen data, about 2 weeks before anybody else. He spent the rest of his too-long career claiming to be a genius about subjects he knew fuck all about.
"Watson was also famously insulting and arrogant as a professor at Harvard, even for a professor at Harvard."
I wrote this 11 years ago and had forgotten the details of just how awful he was. He was awful.
I wrote this 11 years ago and had forgotten the details of just how awful he was. He was awful.
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"Watson was also famously insulting and arrogant as a professor at Harvard, even for a professor at Harvard."
I wrote this 11 years ago and had forgotten the details of just how awful he was. He was awful.
I wrote this 11 years ago and had forgotten the details of just how awful he was. He was awful.
Reposted by Laura Helmuth
10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.
I just got to this part in the episode and am still laughing, howling like a wolf at the moon
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I just got to this part in the episode and am still laughing, howling like a wolf at the moon