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USAID has been slashed, and it is unclear what shape its predecessor will take. How might American foreign assistance be restructured to maintain critical functions? And how should we think about its future?
Every year, AI models get better at thinking. Could they possibly be capable of feeling? And if they are, how would we know?
A conversation about neuroscience, meditation, and the many paths to insight.
A future where life flourishes beyond Earth is closer than you think. How, precisely, will we get there?
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An international team of astronomers announced recently that they had discovered 128 new, small moons orbiting the planet Saturn. That brings the total number of moons known around the ringed planet to 274, breaking all planetary records. Jupiter, the runner-up, has “only” 95 moons; our planet Earth has one. Moons are more common around the […] The post 128 New Moons Found Around Saturn appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
A reading list about making nuclear power cheaper and faster
From the last 6 months | Q4 2024 and Q1 2025
This really is just a coincidence – I posted yesterday about using AI and modern genetic engineering technology, with one application being the de-extinction of species. I had not seen the news from yesterday about a company that just announced it has cloned three dire wolves from ancient DNA. This is all over the news, […] The post De-extincting the Dire Wolf first appeared on NeuroLogica Blog.
[Originally posted on the Terraform blog April 3, 2025.] Three years ago we set out to make cheap synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. At the time I didn’t fully appreciate that we had kicked off the process of recompiling the foundation layer of our entire industrial stack. Last year, we made cheap pipeline grade natural gas from sunlight and air and expanded our hydrocarbon fuel road map to include methanol, a versatile liquid fuel and chemical precursor for practically every other kind of oil-derived chemical on the market. Unlimited synthetic methane and methanol underpinning global energy supply is a good start, but …
