this is *INCREDIBLE* It's what landing on the Moon looks like, 2025 edition

I am disgusted. The American Heart Association just sent an employee to TEXAS to fight a bill that would stop food stamps from covering candy & soda—a bill to reduce heart disease. Why? Because the AHA takes money from Kellogg’s & Pepsi, whose profits would tank if it passed.

A month ago, the Daily Mail reported that the UK government is also going to update their position on the origin of Covid to favor the lab leak hypothesis. If true, more countries are likely to follow the US, Germany, and UK's lead.

Caltrain “An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.” —Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia

Me: we need to get tech out of the classrooms. Schools: we can't because we're already too invested in it. Me: C.S. Lewis would like a word.

Dear die-hard hereditarians: it's time to put your time and money where your mouth is! There is a unique opportunity on the market. Go ahead, raise money and buy 23andMe, which is currently trading at $23M. Sure, it's a long shot and it's risky: there are some liabilities and it

Should be national policy

Really nice video - Adam, you make a lot of sense.

This shouldn’t be happening🛑 Hundreds of whales gather in Antarctica to feed. But even here, where life should be protected, industrial plundering continues.  We’re back, exposing the destruction and CCAMLR's failure to act. youtu.be/n7rLltJ_uEw

Skip the debt. Skip the indoctrination. Get the Palantir Degree.

(1/)Just published my last work from graduate school in the george church lab, a project co-led with Tim Wannier. We developed technology to simplify genome editing in diverse microbial species. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

As parents make progress on the first norm (no smartphone before 14), they increasingly notice that schools are putting screens on their kids' desks and gamifying the school day. ⁦Hadley Freeman, in The Times and The Sunday Times, lays out why this must change: thetimes.com/comment/column…

You need to encode the old models into DNA - they would likely fit into a small test tube!

This is practically the definition of chutzpah: Introduce a product that will probably harm children with the sales pitch that it reduces the harm to children that your last product caused.

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The list of states going phone-free in K-12 schools is expanding, with 4 added just in the last 2 weeks! Well done NY, OK, GA, AL. news.ballotpedia.org/2025/05/16/fou… Here's the current map: