“Dr. Tyson explains where we might find aliens, why “dark matter” is a misleading term, and why you can blame physics for your favorite team’s loss.“ | learn more
“The U.S. needs more moonshot projects like SpaceX—both literally and figuratively. The federal government can play an important role as a buyer-of-first-resort in industries that offer public goods.” | learn more
“Journalists are obsessed with the question of why Americans aren’t having more babies…. But it’s the other two factors—death and immigration—that are overwhelmingly responsible for the collapse in U.S. population growth.” Please give us more immigrants! | learn more
“It is very counter-intuitive to see how “bad” ideas are in fact extremely valuable: not only do they highlight why the good ideas are better, but they also sometimes show that the “good” ideas are in fact wrong. Arguing that […]
“This annual research report seeks to highlight our most provocative research conclusions for the coming year.” Multi-omics, autonomous ride-hail and logistics, and orbital aerospace all sound pretty interesting to me. | learn more
“For the first time, experiments demonstrate the possibility of sharing secrets with perfect privacy — even when the devices used to share them cannot be trusted.” | learn more
“Radiant’s Kaleidos power generator will be an encapsulated, meltdown-proof core utilizing TRI-structural ISOtropic particle (TRISO) fuel, which the Office of Nuclear Energy claims to be “the most robust nuclear fuel on Earth”.” | learn more
This is complicated and I’m certain I haven’t grasped the full extent of it. Definitely big ideas! “As physicists confront that failure [to explain nature], they’re reexamining a longstanding assumption: that big stuff consists of smaller stuff.” | learn more
“Separating urine from the rest of sewage could mitigate some difficult environmental problems, but there are big obstacles to radically re-engineering one of the most basic aspects of life.” | learn more
Byrne Hobart ponders this interesting question. “Trends like the Internet and the Industrial Revolution occur in “the short-term.”“ | learn more