"So, with all the other news, especially the war in the Middle East, why did people care [about the Artemis astronauts]? I think the answer can be summed up in four words: bravery, sacrifice, compassion and hope."
Todays Everyman's Universe post
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/why-artemi...
The outpouring of interest in Artemis II is something worth considering. Today in my @Forbes column, I look at one aspect of its promise. The space economy is already in past 500 billion.
Space is not just about exploration.
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We don't fly through space, we surf it.
The video from my conversation this morning with Sara Sidner on @cnn.com
ust got had a lovely discussion with Sara Sidner on @CNN about the successful Translunar Injection Burn and the amazing math behind it all.
Go science!
About to be on CNN to discuss the Artemis II launch!
I am deeply honored to be giving the Edwin Salpeter Lecture at Cornell next week. Salpeter was truly one of the great astronomers of the 20th century and, of course, Cornell was the home of Carl Sagan.
With this week's Artemis II mission we stand on the brink of returning to solar system for good and becoming a true space-faring species.
This weeks @forbes.com column
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1) Just starting "The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness" by AlexLerchner
This is, so far, a deeply insightful paper about mistaking computation for consciousness.
The world is, without doubt, on fire. We all need to respond. But after you have done what you can, then what?
“You’re not helping the future by being freaked out 99.9 percent of the time.”
Today in Everyman's Universe @Revkin
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But it's got nothing to with climate change. Nope, nothing to see here folks.
Let's just keep dismantling NCAR and other premier atmospheric physics centers because we aren't gonna need those silly institutions of excellence anymore.
www.sciencealert.com/gigantic-hea...
The conspiratorial science-denial folks talk about consensus like it’s just a vote taken at latest meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Vaccines? Yes!
Climate Change? Yes!
UFOs are Aliens? No!
A'la @ccolose.bsky.social
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@evanthompson.bsky.social and his elegant IAI piece on the nature of Mind.
"Thinking that perception happens inside the brain is like thinking that flying happens inside the bird’s wings or that dancing happens inside the dancer’s nervous and musculoskeletal systems"
iai.tv/articles/rea...
Scientists know the consensus because they live it. They read hundreds of papers, attend hundreds of meetings, talk with hundreds of colleagues.
So, yes, consensus itself isn’t science. It’s the result of science.
Today's Everyman's Universe post.
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"Around the beginning of the 2010’s, however, I noticed something changing for those of us trying to bring science and its results to the public."
Some history & thinking about how we got here and what to do about it. This week's Everyman's Universe.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/is-it-time...
I had a lovely conversation with the great Alan Alda about life in the Universe. What a joy!
Find his Clear + Vivid podcast on your favorite podcast delivery system.
"That is what disclosure needs to deliver. Not stories... but physical evidence that independent laboratories and independent scientists all over the world can verify. Only then will it live up to its hype."
Today's Forbes Column.
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"Life is Different". Science needs a new vision of nature when it comes to living systems and philosopher Hans Jonas was the first to articulate the contours of that new perspective.
Also "K-Pop Demon Hunters" is great.
bigthink.com/13-8/nature-...
On Trump / Alien Files. I'm ALL for disclosure. If it leads to quality, verifiable data like every other scientific discovery required then...holy crap!
But, if it's more of what we've seen in congressional testimony so far, we'll still be arguing 'bout this 10 years from now.
"Only life knows Life". My @bigthink.com piece on Hans Jonas the most important philosopher you've never heard of.
Jonas saw why life is different and why reductionist models of it will fail.
A physics of life must go further.
bigthink.com/13-8/nature-...
Oh my god. He’s right! It’s all connected
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week and don't forget to tip your server.
What actually happened with the Obama / Alien kerfuffle and what it tells us about the search for cosmic life.
My @forbes.com post this week.
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“AI is more extractive than artificial: it’s dependent on cheap workers, cheap materials, and stolen information.”
Luke Kemp
look under the hood and you’ll see epic scale human exploitation to make these systems.
Science shows you how to change your mind. That's its superpower as a new paper on Gaia Theory recently showed me.
"Without shame and without rancor, science gives you a path to update your beliefs about the world."
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/science-sh...
Really interesting overlap between Art and Science here in the back and forth on Starry Night and Turbulence.
This weeks post on my Forbes column.
www.forbes.com/sites/adamfr...
"We love to talk about Nature and its harmony and balance. But the Universe does have this other aspect embodied in volcanoes, exploding stars, and of course the Big Bang itself."
This weeks Everyman's Universe post
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/the-univer...
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
@adamserwer.bsky.social
My @forbes.com piece on the approaching Winter Superstorm and what it should remind us about the Earth.
We don't need to save it, we need to be scared sh&tless of it.
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