Even Bob sang about it in his “born again phase”
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Mary Baker Eddy may be forgotten but there’s a long tradition in American society of hostility to medical science — faith healing, medicine shows, etc. — across numerous communities and subgroups.
Except… Cosmic radiation is a thing.
100% chance that sentience crap is to goose the stock price.
Where they're still raising the roof I see
🙋🏼 it’s why all us on this nice website survived past 6 months
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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this is a very Utica reference
One of the lost gospels
I believe that was MarkyMark 19:91 if I'm not mistaken
Just another tricky day
Instead of coming here and having families, paying taxes, and starting businesses, they'll stay in India.
And there were, appropriately 30-75 R pro-environment votes in the House depending on the issue. Yes, this was actually a thing.
Yep my former boss en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwoo...
And their response was equally revolting, basically “yeah ToS we can do it so what”
But with Faye Dunaway and Redford so it’s totes ok.
I thought I read somewhere that that Condor was the only film ever shot inside the Towers. But not sure.
And the groovy jazz soundtrack by Dave Grusin.
Also great scenes of 70s NYC including the interior of the World Trade Center
Among his best. And Sydney Pollack’s. Way better than Spy Game (which was good).
And Three Days of the Condor
Proud of you sis hfcompanies.com/hoffmann-med...
She threw 100 mph in every episode, every scene.
Choreography and merriment for everyone!
"The Specials they are plentiful but the I.R.B. are few" youtu.be/c5XTJoIqKHY
Honoring Fred Schauer today: www.law.virginia.edu/event/rules-...
Hype first, think second
valence issues vs. position issues
The article doesn’t mention it but the reduction in Head and Neck cancer in males is just as significant.
Speaking of how awesome vaccines can be, I just learned that Denmark is close to wiping out leading cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out #VaccinesSaveLives
Is it ok that I had to look up Tracy Anderson classes?
"They better know what they're getting into" -- Me (to a group in DC) March 17, 2002
Join us on Sept 15 for a webinar w/ the U.S. National Science Foundation on NSF Regional Innovation #Engines, a new model of place-based S&T investments promoting industrial strategy Feat @brookings.edu @slaughteram.bsky.social @repbillfoster.bsky.social & others www.newamerica.org/center-educa...
As I recall his plan was roughly "hand the keys to Ahmed Chalabi and go home"
GOLD
take a bow Bluesky Friday dunkers
House Joins Senate in Rejecting Drastic NIH Cuts Pushed by Trump www.aip.org/fyi/house-jo...
#1 Contender for the Tom Friedman Bad Take World Championship Belt
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imagine what a well-trained foreign intelligence agent can do.
For those asking, my American Revolution lecture course is free online here: oyc.yale.edu/history/hist...
“Beckenbauer obviously a surprise there”
Not an exact analogy but def historian adjacent… youtu.be/LfduUFF_i1A?...
Indeed
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17 days B-side is A+++
My one general axiom is that innovators are not found at tech conferences.
Innovation…DRINK
At a tech conference. Hill I’ll likely die on: getting rid of the cliches “moonshot” and “valley of death”. Just stop it.
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I get sent AI-generated written garbage every single day riddled with obvious errors and shoddy grammar. Correcting said garbage (essentially rewriting it) churns up tens of thousands of dollars of client resources for negative results.
NEW STUDY: Types of science🧪 articles shared on Bluesky: Health 29% Social 25% Physical 23% Life 23% arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840 Worth reading--lots of other insights! Lately, I've been sharing our new article on global religious decline www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 Major shake-up in NSF funding for K-12 STEM ed: Caps proposals at $750K max for 3 years. Prior cap used to be $5M up to 5 years for some programs. Archives several existing programs (DRK-12, AISL, CSforAll, TD, parts of ECR:Core). Combines into broad program with much lower expected # of awards.
They reopened Three Mile Island to make Excel even worse defector.com/it-took-many...
1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.
Really interesting look at how the rise of AI-mediated cheating could bring back handwriting, and the implications of that for students and teachers alike. (I wrote all my assignments in cursive through my sophomore year of high school fwiw lol.)
Event: Advancing University–Philanthropy Partnerships for Sustainable Research www.nationalacademies.org/event/45471_...
In Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) culture, only women (the Clan Mothers) can vote and only men can be chiefs.
When you compare Chat-GPT and other LLMs to human beings, especially experts and artists, it sucks. When you compare LLMs to Clippy, autocomplete, "if you would like to pay a bill, say 'billing' or press 2," or even Watson on Jeopardy, it's impressive. Absurd overhype is negatively polarizing.
I was congressional affairs at NSF and nobody was allowed to even view a proposal package. In my time all NSF leg affairs staff were civil servants. Very rare.
Arguably harder since most businesses look ahead 2-3 quarters. Only the largest, well resourced companies look ahead 5+ years.
The new order ends the 75-year old U.S. system of merit-based scientific peer review.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Important SCOTUS cases often have *lots* of ambiguities, in terms of how later courts will interpret its language. Often dissents point out the problems. A student note that tells readers what lower courts have done is often really helpful.
IEA: Renewables will be world’s top power source ‘by 2026’ www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...
You can pay me now. Or pay me later. youtu.be/OHug0AIhVoQ?...
If you’re the last racer in a junior event you have zero chance of success. Nobody other than the starter and the final official was around to witness my chance at ski racing glory.
Slalom age 13 I have no rating = the last racer to go off. The course is a rutted mess. But I catch things perfectly and use the ruts as an ice luge. I’m crushing it. At the penultimate gate, I catch a rut and crash, sliding across the finish line in 3rd place. DQ’d because my ski came off.
See: reverecopper.com/ev-automotiv...
That said, I couldn’t be happier that Revere is thriving. My family goes back four generations with Revere. Back to my grandfather’s grandfather.
Nice piece @wsj.com is except it completely left out why demand for copper bar has soared —EV batteries. www.wsj.com/business/pau...
And in early days of the pandemic prices were heavily marked down, then skyrocketed.
Real
Atlanta’s Growth Streak Has Come to an End apple.news/A7VX5OxrxTii...
on.wsj.com/4kU7st3
Cyber community is on alert after the revelation of a major vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint that's being exploited globally, w/ victims incl. govt agencies & infrastructure operators. Initial disclosure: research.eye.security/sharepoint-u... MSFT guidance: msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2025/07...
It does seem like a problem that these tools depend on humans to create new information that they can regurgitate and that they’re creating the economic conditions that will make those people even rarer than they already are
I nearly knocked Buzz Aldrin to the floor as I was running out of my office and ran into him.
Golden hour
Occam’s Pacer
If only there was an empirically validated theory that explains all of this.
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Yes, this is why the topline domestic discretionary spending number matters. Science funding actually will outperform the overall domestic discretionary figurer if held flat this year. bsky.app/profile/view...
One step at a time. Impoundment looms for certain
This is generally consistent with congressional action on science funding in the first Trump administration. bsky.app/profile/view...
#Fab
INXS is incredibly under appreciated.
Senior biomedical reporter position open here at Science. One of the best crews in science journalism. Join us! Job details at bit.ly/44Rk8uR
My liberal arts education kicked in 32/32 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Vogue material 32/32 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Five Guys was great when it was just Columbia Pike or Rt 7. Went downhill fast after franchising.
Neil H. Shubin of the University of Chicago Nominated to Be Next National Academy of Sciences President www.nasonline.org/news/neil-h-...
Ofc it’s *possible* that certain actions can be done more efficiently but only through more time and effort.
LLM vs SME No time saved Risks added Less trust
New from 404 Media: the media's pivot to AI is not real and not going to work. Media companies are laying off workers and saying they will instead use more AI. This won't work. We have gained a single subscriber from ChatGPT. Yes, one (1). It's not a business model www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
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California has cut electric natural gas usage by 40% in less than 2 years www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
