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AddMismanagement and political campaigning have sucked the joy out of an event meant to bring people together
Samples collected from asteroid Ryugu contain the four genetic “letters” of DNA, reinforcing the hypothesis that the chemical origins of life were present when…
World War II has faded into movies, anecdotes, and archives that nobody cares about anymore. Are we finally losing the war?
By Lee Vinsel
I'm reposting this essay I wrote in 2021 because the online blogging platform Medium has apparently changed its policies and people are having trouble accessing the original. Hopefully, I'll find a better, more durable solution soon. I'm reposting it unaltered, even though I would unsurprisingly do some
Talkspace has amassed “one of the largest mental health data banks in the world,” according to reports to investors, containing 140 million message exchanges.
I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very...
On irony poisoning and the importance of being earnest.
Artemis II astronauts updated the iconic 1968 image during their 2026 loop around the Moon.
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NFTs, the metaverse and AI are the most recent Silicon Valley enthusiasms. Does anyone remember how to build a consumer product?
Like Imperial Japan before us, the United States has substituted tactical and operational planning for strategic thinking.
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To HIV researchers, I am an ‘elite controller’ – someone whose immune system has enabled them to live for decades without symptoms or medication. I hope that one day science will understand this tiny but lucky minority
With peptides like BPC-157, we are seeing 'the wholesale substitution of consumer enthusiasm for clinical evidence.'