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🚨 New on Substack: Black Holes as Mirrors — how Hayden–John Preskill showed that information tossed into a black hole comes back out — scrambled, but whole. Quantum chaos, fast scramblers, and surreal space art 🪞🌀 w/ nods to our Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research on black hole computation 📖 Read

Under Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”, the top 0.1% will see their income increase by nearly $400,000 next year, while Americans making less than $51,000 will see their incomes GO DOWN. Oligarchs are waging a war on the working class, and they are intent on winning.

Photographed for National Academies

Buried deep in the text of the more than 1,000-page bill is a measure to restrict the federal courts’ authority to hold officials in contempt if they violate court orders. trib.al/YhCqtZN

Genuinely touched to be named among the New Heroes. I’m in extraordinary company—dear friends like Sara Imari Walker, David Eagleman, Astro Teller, and Daniel Ellsberg (Memorial), a lifelong hero whose legacy stays with me every day.

New Heroes portrait of Jennifer Doudna for National Academies. National Academy of Sciences explorers.com/jennifer-doudn…

'Never rely on an authority in science. Even the greatest genius can be wrong — whether he has one or two Nobel prizes, or none.' -Erwin Schrödinger

Author's I admire: Portrait of Kim Stanley Robinson explorers.com/kim-stanley-ro… Kim Stanley Robinson explorers.com/kim-stanley-ro…

In the frozen stillness of Ny-Ålesund, an old tower rises from the snow. In May 1926, the airship Norge lifted off from this very spot becoming the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. Norge was designed by Umberto Nobile and piloted by a crew that included Roald Amundsen and

"New Heroes" portrait of Adam Savage for National Academies: explorers.com/adam-savage/

This Carl Sagan Prediction from 1995 Is Surprisingly Correct

The Long Now Foundation is proud to announce Christopher Michel as its first Artist-in-Residence. Through his photography, Christopher Michel has captured both the world’s most renowned scientists & long-term thinkers as well as our planet’s most incredible natural landscapes.

Read our full interview with Christopher Michel here: longnow.org/ideas/christop…

This site is awesome and inspiring.

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Fantastic interview about the importance of science and research (and scientists as the rock stars they are) from my personal favorite photographer, Christopher Michel .

What is Life? In her Long Now Talk, astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker Walker explores the fundamental nature of life and how can physics help shape our understanding of how it arises in the universe.

scott budman Christopher Michel ^

✨Impressive capture. #Hasselblad #x2d100c