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AddAndy Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, and Cheshire Crossing.
Cosmic radiation comes from space. Only a small amount reaches the Earth's surface, but exposure is greater for people flying at high altitudes.
The H5N1 virus has now reached every continent on the planet. What does it mean for some of the world’s unique species?
Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer
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
A decades-old rule about human friendship turns out to be built on such shaky math that it could just as easily be 2 or 520.
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
This blog post takes us back to 2010, retracing and incident where a statistical anomaly led to the discovery of a subtle flaw in the way we were using a security-critical library.
Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake
Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion's conservatism.