Tag: science

Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026: Seahorse farewell

A portrait capturing an extraordinary moment between an adult seahorse and two newly born juveniles in French Polynesia has been crowned the overall winner of the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 competition. Source: Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026: Seahorse farewell wins competition | CNN

The Long Game

It’s hard to predict the future. This is why it is so important to study history and pay attention in the present. When you see articles like this from Grist about changes in education curriculum for the sciences, it’s easy to blow past it in a news aggregator or social media timeline , but these...

Life, death, an wonder of the Cosmos

I really enjoyed this discussion between @astrokatie.com and @hankgreen.bsky.social in an episode of Hank's podcast, Humans. It's a wonderful perspective of science and discovery: https://pca.st/episode/c9c0a916-616c-4495-8877-436dffaee565

science vs. vegetable faces

i like to dilly dally on my way home from therapy because it's often the one day i go to manhattan and there's always some bullshit going on, especially between madison park and herald square. there were a bunch of boxes of books on one corner and one of the two that caught my eye and went home with me was the earth moves by dan hofstadter, relation to doug unknown. this was one of those history books where i can tell that dan da man knew what he was talking about but HOLY CROW did he use a lot ...

What Actually Works for Productivity With ADHD

Most popular ADHD productivity tools are unproven. What the evidence supports is external, free, and boring.

Why the universe has giant empty regions

Cosmic voids are not holes in space. They are the gravitationally amplified low points of the early universe.

RFK Jr. Just Embarrassed Himself Publicly On CNN

This post is going to come with something of a warning label. RFK Jr. went on CNN this past weekend for an interview with Dana Bash. I'm going to post the entirety of that interview immediately below. Before you watch it, get yourself a bib, or some paper towels, or wrap yourself in one of...

Skincare for Millennial Men: The Science, Not the Marketing Fluff

it’s the end of US science, and we know it

Source: The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it | The Verge The rule change would require political oversight of more than $1 trillion of federal grants across 42 different agencies. Federal grants are what pay for most of the scientific research, and the researchers, at universities across the country, from...

Managing scientific knowledge for policy on the ATmosphere

Two types of Atmosphere toolkit are needed if ATScience is to help scientists do science and better communicate it to other audiences: one serving the researchers and their teams, the other focused on aggregation and synthesis.

The Galileo Gambit: Scientific Liberty, Consensus, and the Cost of Persuasion

The Moth Is Not Lost

For a hundred years, we told the wrong story about moths and light.

Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh

Notes from a wonderfully interdisciplinary Edinburgh workshop on 'Rewilding the Web', ranging coopetition and biological variety through the philosophy of self-organisation, polycrisis governance, protopian science fiction, and moderation seen through the lens of artisanal cheese.

SPICE: Our Antifragile Biology

Spicy food and capsaicin demonstrate hormesis and antifragility in human biology. The science of pain, TRPV1 receptors, and how controlled exposure to stressors makes our bodies stronger rather than weaker.

The Hondius Pneumonia (Low Risk Assessment)

A hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius in the South Atlantic has sent thirty passengers home across twenty-three countries before a single test was run. What does the WHO's 'low risk' framing mean? The institutional failure of January 2020, and what honest communication about uncertainty actually requires. The incubation window is open. We are watching.

PATTERN RECOGNITION

Scientists working in classified American aerospace and nuclear research have died and disappeared. The story has migrated from UFO forums to the White House briefing room. A conspiracy requires a conspirator. On grief, and the brain's furious, irrepressible need for meaning. Nuno Loureiro wanted to trap a small star. Carl Grillmair watched stellar streams from a self-built desert observatory. Monica Reza invented an alloy that does not burn. This is not me trying to figure anything out, this is me trying to remember the human beings.

The Future of Science Depends on Open Source Engineers

The processes of modern science, from how research gets funded and conducted to how it gets published, evaluated, and preserved, were never engineered. They emerged over hundreds of years, built by researchers and institutions one workaround at a time. What we call "the scientific system" is really a patchwork of customs, formats, and platforms that were never designed to work together, never stress-tested at scale, and never designed to evolve.

The Liebox That Wears Our Words

A call to hold the line against Claudeswallop.

The machines are not, in fact, fine.

"Claude, write me a viral debut blog post using these three sources, make no mistakes."

THE MOON

Born on April 13th, 26 years after Apollo 13's failure, I explore my personal connection to the Moon as Artemis II astronauts journey toward Her. The Moon has scientific importance, cultural naming traditions, religious significance across civilizations, linguistic ties to lunacy and menstruation, and is the first poem. The Moon unites humanity across time and space as we return to Her once again.