Sciences

My Favorite Books of 2024

Something funny happened during the time that I spent writing my book: I stopped...

Parts of It Were Pretty Bad

Jenny:  It’s the first full year without my dad, which makes my heart hurt. And ...

Not Everything Is Terrible, Volume 2

Ed. note: Now, even more than last year, it’s easy to believe that literally eve...

Not Everything Is Terrible, Poetry Edition

* Text: If You Were Looking for a Sign, This Is It Yesterday was hard. The day b...

What If The Solar System Had a Super-Earth? Here's What...

Things could have been very different.

Bill Maher’s latest news/comedy bit from “Real Time”

The latest monologue from Maher’s show is called “Eat the rich,” taking off from...

Maybe Good Things Will Happen – I

Ed. note: Yes, certainly, parts of last year were pretty bad, yes, we noticed th...

Maybe Good Things Will Happen – II

Ed. note: Yes, certainly, parts of last year were pretty bad, yes, we noticed th...

By the wind sailors

This post first appeared in March 2023. I can’t wait to go to the beach again. W...

Oh Wow: An Exercise in Certainty

Key:* = Pretty darn sure** = Scientists are making some educated guesses here Hu...

Science Metaphors (cont.): Touchstone

Last Friday, Sarah used “touchstone” as a metaphor. I think she uses the metapho...

Dataviz of the Month – Sep 2024

CREATED BY US » Water World – where is all the water in all the world? » Per Sec...

Dataviz of the Month – Nov 24

CREATED BY US » Latest AI LLM’s ranked by performance (MMLU) » Left vs Right – c...

Another wonky critique of determinism in a review of Sa...

I’ve read Robert Sapolsky’s book Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will...

New Law Would Allow AI to Replace Your Doctor, Prescrib...

If you weren't convinced we're spiraling toward some shitty Cyberpunk hell, a ne...

OpenAI's Agent Has a Problem: Before It Does Anything I...

Behold, "Operator," OpenAI's long-awaited agentic AI model that can use your com...

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