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Biologist Michael Levin writes ideas so dense they've been called "impossible to read." A NY Mag profile left me fascinated but wanting to know more. So I asked an AI to translate and it built a bridge between Levin and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. nymag.com/intelligence...
What Is It Like to Be a Cucumber?Biologist Michael Levin is working to prove that minds are hiding everywhere, from a plant to a scrap of skin to a single cell.nymag.comBrilliant account of the Fauci hearing and what it means for the origin of covid. By @KatherineEban www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Covid Origins Saga Is More Complicated Than Either Side Wants to AdmitThe Covid-19 origins controversy is more complicated than Rand Paul and Republicans or Anthony Fauci have been willing to admit.www.rollingstone.comObituary of our wonderful, wonderful cover designer Graeme James. Such an incredible talent and very much missed. www.economist.com/culture/2026...
The Economist’s cover designer, Graeme James, has died, aged 65His more than 2,500 covers cleverly captured, mocked and ridiculed the worldwww.economist.comWonderful. Wally Funk was told women couldn’t be astronauts economist.com/obituary/202... from The Economist
Wally Funk was told women couldn’t be astronautsThe aviator who refused to agree died on July 8th, aged 87economist.comDoes nobody in Washington see the strategic importance of a China that is independent of energy prices? It’s so fundamental. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... China pours funding into green energy deals as Iran war hits oil demand
China pours funding into green energy deals as Iran war hits oil demandBeijing’s Belt and Road Initiative takes advantage of rise in appetite for renewables as Middle East conflict drags ongiftarticle.ft.com69 days to 1,000 dead. We have not seen an Ebola outbreak like it before. substack.com/@natashalode...
Natasha Loder (@natashaloder)69 days to 1,000 dead. We have not seen an Ebola outbreak like it before.
https://overmatter.substack.com/p/ebola-is-back-again-here-is-what?r=cw4p0&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=websubstack.comMy hot take on the Nike Mind shoes that are developed through years of neuroscience..... walking barefoot is regulating because you get the input from the ground. Put a pair of thick-soled trainers on and that input vanishes. So what Nike has done is returned some feedback www.nike.com/gb/mind
Nike MindDiscover Nike Mind 001. A mind-altering shoe. A pregame-enhancing hack. A new way to connect body and brain. Engage your sensory cortex with Nike Mind.www.nike.comExtraordinary that this death happened. This isn't like the baby KJ gene editing which was on the liver (far easer and less risky to edit than the brain), and using lipid nanoparticles (not billions virus particles). www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made publicParents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation revealswww.science.orgThe next health supplement you buy could be sold to you by an AI-generated avatar that looks like someone you trust. www.nytimes.com/video/techno...
Video: The Fake Influencers Selling Wellness on Your FeedThe New York Times found hundreds of A.I.-generated doctors, healers and wellness influencers on social media touting the health benefits of supplements to American consumers. Many of these hyperreali...www.nytimes.comWith Anthropic racing to get into biopharma, I'm sharing my earlier piece on how AI companies are trying to eat pharma's lunch. (How far this will go will largely depend on what they can learn or infer about biology that isn't currently understood) open.substack.com/pub/overmatt...
In Brief #1: The lab with no lab. How AI is changing the rules of drug discoveryMachines are making wet labs matter lessopen.substack.comMy grandfather, a doctor, asked for morphine at the difficult end of his life and his doctors had the kindness and grace to give it to him. It’s called compassion. apple.news/AVSsJsftbSYi...
The NHS doctor: ‘I have shortened quite a few patients’ lives’ — The Times and The Sunday TimesDuring his long career, Professor Richard Coker has given morphine to dying patients to end their suffering. Here he speaks out about assisted dyingapple.newsgiftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Trump is driving another nail into the coffin of US science 🎁
Trump is driving another nail into the coffin of US scienceUnder proposed reforms, political appointees will review grants to ensure they “advance the President’s priorities”giftarticle.ft.com