Palmer on why science fiction is important

Why is Russia winning in Ukraine? Why haven't sanctions worked on China? And why is the US less able to impose its will? Because the G7 is in relative decline. Until you understand this, you'll be confused. Check for yourself. Data is from the World Bank. data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.G…

it's here! cortical labs just launched the first commercial biological computer human neurons directly integrated onto silicon chips. programmable and adaptive, living computation synthetic biological intelligence 1/

I think the craziest thing about this video (other than the fact that it’s a MOON LANDING) is watching the lunar dust clear away in seconds. There’s no convective atmosphere to keep the dust hanging around, it’s all just parabolic motion!

Thread of beautiful Art Deco designs 🧵 1. Cincinnati Union Terminal

Spent dinner last night with my bf discussing the hierarchy of man. He then used his PE slide-making abilities and sent me this today.

Kathāsaritsāgara itself is likely adopted from an earlier 3rd century CE text Bṛhatkathā by Guṇāḍhya in a language that no longer extant the way these Sanskrit texts and stories are preserved is simply fascinating the tradition of meta embedding of stories within stories is

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India's Chandrayaan-3 confirms water (ice) in the Moon's south pole. This is the region NASA wants to land astronauts as part of its Artemis mission in 2026. Not sure why this news is not popular on X. Indian media too hasn't covered it well. NASA has recently sent the

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Seeding my Bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ blog with more random posts, e.g. here's something I had on backlog for a while: # The append-and-review note An approach to note taking that I stumbled on and has worked for me quite well for many years. I find that it strikes a good balance of being

Many leading western scientists, modern philosophers, linguists, literary geniuses, and others whom Indians worship as gurus of modern science, philosophy, and culture (rightly so, for their contributions) have read Indian scriptures, praise them, and some even say they were

Trump’s new tariffs aren’t a trade tweak—they’re the first move in a full-spectrum reset. $9.2T in debt matures in 2025. Inflation lingers. Alliances are shifting. One announcement just set a dozen wheels in motion. Here’s what’s really happening—and why it matters 🧵

real history of kashmir, they will never tell you about.

To Friends in the West and to the people of Pakistan, Jai hind 🇮🇳

A simple quantum truth that never ceases to delight: We spend our lives floating on a sea of repelling electrons. We never truly touch anything. What we call "touch" is just the sensation of our electrons pushing against the electrons in everything around us.

How to build a thriving open source community by writing code like bacteria do 🦠. Bacterial code (genomes) are: - small (each line of code costs energy) - modular (organized into groups of swappable operons) - self-contained (easily "copy paste-able" via horizontal gene

The opinion that the Vedic Saṃhitā is semantically empty is a relatively late development (perhaps in the last millennium?) Even the Mīmāṃsakas, who were Vedic revisionists in a sense, held that Vedic mantras are vivakṣita-artha, i.e. have intended meaning

Possibly the most profound in the universe of underrated statements