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My latest, for the brilliant Asimov Press, on the quip that life is "just" slime on a rock, spinning around an average star... 🧫 Read why this outlook is misguided below! 🔗👇

Excellent article on the origins of the Research University.

Charles Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, once theorized that organic sludge creates rocky planets, rather than the other way around. Understanding that limestone and chalk are formed from compressed shellfish and other organic remnants, Darwin extrapolated this to the scale

In 1983, essayist Lewis Thomas received received an invitation to help replace the ancient Seven Wonders with seven modern ones. Unable to settle on a list of man-made monuments, Thomas chose instead to make a list of natural Wonders. His final list featured everything from

Just Published: A look inside ARIA, the UK's Bet to Build Scientific Revolutions. We sent Eric Gilliam, author of the popular metascience blog "FreakTakes," to interview Ilan Gur, CEO of ARIA. Check it out at the link below.

Big post today: a two-hour interview with Ilan Gur on the metascience experiment that is ARIA Ilan was fantastically open. I had a blast. I can only hope he had half as much fun. Huge thanks to Asimov Press for setting this up!

Ilan Gur ARIA Asimov Press The summary piece can be found at Asimov Press. The full interview and transcript can be found on FreakTakes. Both links below! Asimov Piece: press.asimov.com/articles/aria FreakTakes Podcast + Transcript: freaktakes.com/p/an-oral-hist…

"I think about our programmes as funding a constellation of teams that can lead to massively transformative outcomes at the intersection of quality of life and economic growth — not just for the UK, but for the world." Check out Ilan Gur's interview with Eric Gilliam. ↓

Great to see this kind of thoughtful, in-depth dialogue on how research organizations can drive breakthrough science. 👏 Eric Gilliam 👏 Ilan Gur 👏 Asimov Press

In 2006, scientists isolated 500 random microbes from soil & exposed them to 21 antibiotics. On average, microbes were resistant to 7 or 8 of them. 2 strains were resistant to 15 antibiotics, incl. compounds that were entirely synthetic and recently approved for clinical use.

(From the archives) Reservoirs of Resistance: press.asimov.com/articles/resis…

Weekly Links #3 1. “The brain works at more than 10 bits per second.” 2. A brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis that works without lag. 3. A microbe that may be evolving into a virus. Read it here: nmccarty.com/p/weekly-links…

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