Liftoff of Starship's seventh flight test. The Super Heavy booster utilized flight proven hardware for the first time, reusing a Raptor engine from the fifth flight test

A look inside a Spanish treasure ship. From 1566 on, the Spanish Empire organized a system of treasure fleets travelling on permanent trade routes every year, transporting valuable goods across the Atlantic!

The energy transition is proving to be more difficult, costly, and complicated than expected. It is time to rethink priorities, polices and investments in light of the complicated realities. My new article w/ Peter Orszag & Atul Arya in Foreign Affairs. foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/red…

Atlas is demonstrating reinforcement learning policies developed using a motion capture suit. This demonstration was developed in partnership with Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute.

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity. -- Carl Sagan

Starship in space

"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought." -- Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893 - 1986)

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” — Milton Friedman

Jane Goodall has died at 91. Her startling observations about chimpanzee behaviors revolutionized not only scientific understanding of the capabilities and inner lives of primates, but also long-held notions about what it means to be human. wapo.st/42jMe1f

Final descent and splashdown of Starship on Flight 11, captured by the SpaceX recovery team in the Indian Ocean

“The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” — Elon Musk

Only in America can a kid wear $150 shoes, sip a $8 coffee, and post from a $1,200 phone about being oppressed and claiming capitalism has failed them.

"Igual que antes fue necesario separar a la Iglesia del Estado, ahora es necesario separar a la clase política de la Economía" Antonio Escohotado

Elon & Jensen today...amazing On the topic of AI in space - is it possible? Elon: "Yes. If civilization continues, which it probably will, then AI in space is inevitable. You always have to preface that - we shouldn't take civilization for granted - we need to take care to

Nowhere in the Bitcoin whitepaper does it mention BTC being a store of value, an inflation hedge, recession proof, digital gold, a geopolitical hedge, or a retirement asset. These narratives were 100% invented by maxis to push the scheme on more naive retail sheep, because the

BREAKING: Sugars essential for life have been found in pristine asteroid Bennu samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Combined with previous detections of amino acids and nucleobases, we see that life’s ingredients were widespread throughout the solar system:

"Colgamos a los pequeños ladrones y nombramos a los grandes para cargos públicos" Esopo