Building on the published evidence above, Dr. Ruben Laukkonen proposes the hypothesis that this is a version of human hibernation. It’s a very interesting idea. ~ learn more
“Lee was part of a small group — many of them retired athletes — who’d traveled to Jamaica in March 2022 for a retreat costing as much as $5,500. They each had come to the Good Hope Estate, a sugar […]
“The authors reasoned that if a study was highly disruptive, subsequent research would be less likely to cite the study’s references, and instead would cite the study itself. Using the citation data from 45 million manuscripts and 3.9 million patents, […]
“Teach it to use the Wolfram language.” ~ see a concise example or stephen wolfram’s detailed post
Start your year with this link and you’ll have plenty of cause for optimism! Humans are amazing. ~ learn more
“Published in Science, the study said that groundwater-fed irrigation had transformed much of Bangladesh’s single-crop, rain-watered floodplains into highly productive double-cropping and, in places, triple-cropping lands to make the country the world’s fourth highest producer of rice.” | learn more
The first two parts of this series were Sequencing and Synthesis. This part, called Scale, builds on the idea that the underlying breakthroughs enable automation that drives the pace of science much faster, creating totally new types of biotechnology. | learn more
“Octopuses are surprisingly intelligent, and reproduce at 1 year old. If we’d started a breeding program 50 years ago, we probably could’ve gotten them smarter than dolphins by now. A disappointing failure of the long-term mad science ecosystem.” | learn more
“Love them or hate them, hugs are part of Western culture. They don’t just confer emotional closeness, they’ve been shown to improve our mental and physical health. But hugging is not as straightforward as it may seem. Where do your […]
“The next time you meet someone new, ditch the small talk. Science says they–and you–will be glad you did.” | learn more