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Eric Schmid at Undark: For 20 years, Pablo Sobron sought a better way to learn exactly what was in the soil, rock, or any other substance on Mars. Instead of
Continue readingThe Promise of Precision Agriculture Is Slowly Coming to Fruition
Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping soundWhen the spade sinks into gravelly ground:My father, digging. I look
Marisa Wright at The Millions: In Glynnis MacNicol’s second memoir, I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself, pleasure is political. The narrative follows the weeks MacNicol spent in Paris in late summer 2021
Luke Gebel et al in Nature: The Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK, is a world leader in basic biology research. The lab’s list of breakthroughs
Continue readingThe Strategy Behind One of the Most Successful Labs in the World
by Tara Isabella Burton at Wisdom of Crowds: It is easy to be nostalgic for all kinds of unpleasant things. We are nostalgic for unhappy childhoods, brutal educational institutions, unhappy
Continue readingLockdown Nostalgia: I Miss Only Caring About What Really Matters
Liz Wolfe at Reason: Many have theorized that the fence sitters in this election aren’t really looking to be persuaded—it’s not as if much light will be shed on the
Continue readingPresidential Debate: Will this Election Come Down to the “Double Haters”?
The trite answer to the question of why empires fall is that they become victims of their own success, growing too large, too corrupt, and too exhausted to fend off
And it was thenthat with a tongue dead and cold in the mouthhe sang the song others allowed him to singin this world of obscene gardens and shadowscoming at unseemly
Sarah Kerr at The Conversation: Climate activists Just Stop Oil launched a protest at Stonehenge, the 5,000-year-old stone monument in southern England, a day before thousands of people planned to
Continue readingIf You Worry About Climate Change Damages You Should Listen to Just Stop Oil
Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs,And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory. Defeat, my Defeat, my self-knowledge and my
Civilisation is hooped together, broughtUnder a rule, under the semblance of peaceBy manifold illusion; but man’s life is thought,And he, despite his terror, cannot ceaseRavening through century after century,Ravening, raging,
by Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: This week, a new study in Nature offers an unconventional idea: Using a second AI tool as a kind of “truth police” to detect
Continue readingResearchers Say Chatbots ‘Policing’ Each Other Can Correct Some AI Hallucinations