Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Science
09/24/2023
NASA returns its largest asteroid sample to Earth
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to sample an asteroid brought its rubbly haul back to Earth Sunday.
09/07/2023
Human kidneys have been partially grown in pigs for the first time
Early kidney structures made of mostly human cells have been grown in pig embryos for up to 28 days as part of efforts to grow human organs in other animals for transplants
06/29/2023
What Could Go Right? AI everywhere
Plus, wins for pregnant women and women who don’t want to get pregnant.
06/15/2023
What Could Go Right? Beating cancer
With new tools and better data, we're slowly sending a global scourge into remission.
05/29/2023
Japanese researchers want to demonstrate space-based solar power by 2025
The country has led the research effort for many decades and now wants to be the first to achieve the goal.
04/27/2023
Reason, Optimism and the Limits of Wokeness | Professor Steven Pinker
In this conversation, John is joined by Professor Steven Pinker, world renowned cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist and public intellectual.
05/04/2023
Opinion: Who regulates the regulators?
Scott Alexander reviews a book about institutional review boards (IRBs), the panels that review the ethics of medical trials: From Oversight to Overkill, by Dr. Simon Whitney. From the title alone, you can see where this is going.
04/06/2023
What Could Go Right? Extraordinary tools to eradicate disease
Thousands of children’s lives have already been saved by brand new vaccines.
03/09/2023
Scientists have mapped an insect brain in greater detail than ever before
Charting a larval fruit fly’s nerve cells and their connections took 12 years.
03/11/2023
Frans de Waal on Chimpanzee—and Human—Politics
Yascha Mounk and Frans de Waal discuss how studying the (other) great apes can help us better understand human behavior and society.
02/28/2023
We need a psychology of progress
Ultimately, progress is powered by people. So if we want to drive progress, we have to understand the machinery of human minds.
02/09/2023
