Robert Fortner
@robertwfortner.bsky.social
Science writer, working on a book about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
@undark.org ran an opinion piece on increasing distrust of science, arguing "Here’s another possible cause: MAGA has a point."
I've written for Undark; I unsubscribed.
MIT: shame.
undark.org/2025/06/19/o...
I've written for Undark; I unsubscribed.
MIT: shame.
undark.org/2025/06/19/o...
What if MAGA Has a Point About Science?
Opinion | Conservative distrust of science helped set the stage for its dismantling. Can scientists bridge the partisan divide?
undark.org
June 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
@undark.org ran an opinion piece on increasing distrust of science, arguing "Here’s another possible cause: MAGA has a point."
I've written for Undark; I unsubscribed.
MIT: shame.
undark.org/2025/06/19/o...
I've written for Undark; I unsubscribed.
MIT: shame.
undark.org/2025/06/19/o...
Faulted for Microsoft missing the internet, Nathan Myhrvold recruited mathematician Michael Freedman to msft in 1997 culminating in this (maybe) breakthrough
"You can multiply a low probability by a big benefit if it happens as, hey, that's great!" -Bill Gates, 1998
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...
"You can multiply a low probability by a big benefit if it happens as, hey, that's great!" -Bill Gates, 1998
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...
Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers
Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts did not think was possible.
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Faulted for Microsoft missing the internet, Nathan Myhrvold recruited mathematician Michael Freedman to msft in 1997 culminating in this (maybe) breakthrough
"You can multiply a low probability by a big benefit if it happens as, hey, that's great!" -Bill Gates, 1998
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...
"You can multiply a low probability by a big benefit if it happens as, hey, that's great!" -Bill Gates, 1998
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...