Tag: science
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...
The flaw of attraction
I recently wrote about how my journey into the mindfulness world re-exposed me to the racist grifters using mindfulness as a cash cow, and today I want to look at another sad reality I keep finding in the mindfulness world: the continued pseudoscientific myth of the “Law of Attraction.”
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...
The Galileo Gambit: Scientific Liberty, Consensus, and the Cost of Persuasion
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 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.