This interview catches you up on almost everything you want to know about the state of fusion research. Dennis Whyte is a nuclear scientist at MIT and the director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. He’s interviewed by […]
“I asked Kunal Shah this question last week. Kunal founded CRED – one of India’s leading consumer fintech companies valued at $6.4B. He gave me a laundry list of nuanced observations. This list is a *must read* if you’re interested […]
“Building a world that prioritizes energy production, an ergophilic world, can unlock far more than just solutions to problems. An ergophilic world would put no upper bound on our ability to manipulate the physical world: continuing the exponential growth in […]
Ezra Klein makes the point that we got carried away with the “reduce” part of reduce, reuse, recycle. Our per capita energy use in the US has decreased since 1979. It’s not a coincidence that most tech innovation since then […]
Adam Mastroianni might have discovered a new human bias. Then, he did something very rare in the scientific community: he self-published his research. Then he wrote this post explaining why peer review, “the greatest scientific experiment in history failed”. His […]
I loved this explanation of the nuclear energy market and the technology advances nearing commercialization. “For the first time, this generation of reactors isn’t 100% government-funded and instead built by venture-backed startups.” | learn more
Writing for the Financial Times, journalist Robin Wigglesworth notes the many things that financial journalists have worried about over the past decade. “What is remarkable about this is how many things basically pretty much came to pass. … And yet, none […]
If the following excerpt doesn’t scare you away, you might enjoy this link. “Eventually my colleagues and I realized that both the information paradox and the newer firewall paradox arose because our attempts to meld quantum mechanics and black hole […]
I can’t do justice to this article with a summary. If you only read one this week, let this be it. It explores this idea: “how do we get to a future where everything grows on trees?” | learn more
“But the nascent bioplastics industry envisions a far bigger role for materials made from corn, sugar, vegetable oils and other renewable materials in the hope of grabbing a larger share of a nearly $600 billion global plastic market.” | learn more