With one change, it's more theologically accurate.

Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess Without science, the stunning images of Earth from space are only pretty pictures.

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“Reasonable people can disagree on what should be done to limit the effects of climate change,” writes Kate Marvel, who last month quit her job at NASA researching the future of Earth’s climate. “But rather than debate policy, the administration has chosen to attack science itself.”

The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness Do we all see the same red? Or feel joy and sadness alike? Mapping how our inner experiences relate to one another could finally reveal how physical processes in the brain give rise to consciousness

Do we all see the same red? Or feel joy and sadness alike? Mapping how our inner experiences relate to one another could finally reveal how physical processes in the brain give rise to consciousness

Earth may have formed from two separate rings around the sun Our solar system’s rocky planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars – may have formed from two rings around the young sun, rather than a single disc

Our solar system’s rocky planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars – may have formed from two rings around the young sun, rather than a single disc

Donald Trump says Iran should not play in World Cup for their ‘life and safety’ Donald Trump said Iran are welcome to the World Cup but that he does not believe it is appropriate that they be there ‘for their own life and safety’

Is there ANY sign that the E.U. (and the rest of the world) is going to organize an alternative World Cup? It was clear a year ago that the U.S. couldn’t responsibly host the tournament, and now it is an imperative.

Scientists Get a Glimpse of How New Pandemics Are Made

New analysis of genetic changes over time suggests COVID wasn't a lab leak -but- an earlier flu outbreak probably was. Sobering piece by @carlzimmer.com

AI danger gets real The squabble between America’s government and Anthropic makes an AI disaster more likely

"'Chernobyl moment': the use of A.I. that leads to a disaster which causes either huge economic damage or loss of life.... Perhaps the best the world can hope for is a small-scale disaster, which jolts China and America into pressing for safety precautions—not Chernobyl so much as Three Mile Island"

Opinion | I Worked for Block. Its A.I. Job Cuts Aren’t What They Seem.

"It matters less whether a company knows how to deploy A.I. and more whether investors believe it is on track to.... The company [Block] was tracking everyone’s use of A.I. tools. The implicit message was clear: Adoption was not optional." And for what? Outside of coding, I find LLMs all but useless

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Read more about what children at the Dilley detention center are going through in their own words in these stories: www.propublica.org/article/life... and www.propublica.org/article/dill...

Fox News isn't bothering to report that a U.S. or Israeli airstrike killed over a hundred kids.

These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test

"One of my growing concerns is that A.I. could inadvertently slow scientific progress."

University of North Texas Shutters Exhibition of Artworks Critical of ICE Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, a Mexican-American artist whose work centers immigrant experiences, said the school closed his show without notice.

What happened at the University of North Texas should trouble anyone who claims to value free expression especially at a public university

Exhibition titled Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez featuring work critical of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was abruptly shut down

Start by resurrecting USAID.

ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say

NYT: ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

His course was one of the highlights of my time in grad school. 😢

This from Magali Billen, UC Davis:

Dr. Don Turcotte passed away yesterday. He was 92 years old.

he was surrounded by family. His granddaughter had wanted to read something to Don in the hospital so his son suggested “Geodynamics” - she was reading to him in his final moments. ⚒️

I'm at the Willard Hotel where I've been denied entry and kicked out of the Reclaiming Science event with NIH director Bhattacharya & other top agency leaders.

@jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and I registered for the event months ago yet were told capacity was full, even as they let in dozens of others.

How to avoid common AI pitfalls in the workplace Advice from our latest season of “Boss Class”

"AI boosters talk of superintelligence, the end of work and of data centres in space. Here on planet Earth, the technology merely increases the chances of having the right number of pepperoni slices on your next takeaway." I can think of a lot of better uses for the $1 trillion being spent on AI.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

They should boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Congress passes bill to fund U.S. science agencies, rebuffing Trump's requested cuts The Senate voted to provide billions more to NASA, NOAA and the National Science Foundation than the president had asked for.

Congress just approved funding for key scientific agencies AND is proposing billions more for the National Science Foundation, NOAA, and NASA!

Evidence-based decision making still has a pulse. 👏🏼👏🏼

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

I take your points. I just feel we don’t really know. Confronted with the complexity of LLMs, our intuitions may mislead us; these systems might well have acquired capabilities, including interiority. So we should see what theories of consciousness have to say.

What makes you say that?

Yes, it does remind me of the Chinese Room. Hoel also makes a fairly strong assumption - or draws a fairly strong conclusion (I’m not sure which way the logic really runs) - that consciousness entails continuous learning.

Proving (literally) that ChatGPT isn't conscious There is nothing it is like to be a Large Language Model

The question of whether LLMs are conscious is now settled. @erikhoel.blogsky.venki.dev’s approach is agnostic about which theory of consciousness is right. Empirically, LLMs are equivalent to a lookup table, which is manifestly not conscious. But a future A.I. system that learns on the fly might be.

NASA considering bringing astronauts home early from International Space Station due to medical issue "Safely conducting our missions is our highest priority, and we are actively evaluating all options, including the possibility of an earlier end to Crew-11's mission."

There's a health issue affecting an astronaut aboard the ISS. www.space.com/space-explorati...

Exclusive: Have scientists found Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA? Inside the decadeslong quest to reveal the genes of a genius—and revolutionize art authentication

🧪 EXCLUSIVE 🧪 from @science.org: Scientists have swabbed a 500-year-old drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci—and may have found a piece of his DNA. www.science.org/content/arti...

Yes, really. A quick thread:

Takeaways from Congress’ latest spending package Lawmakers are moving to cut funding but rejecting severe reductions sought by the White House to energy and environment programs.

The battle to save NCAR has faded from the headlines, but it is not over.
www.eenews.net/articles/tak...
Call your Congressional reps and ask them to add language explicitly protecting NCAR to the spending package:
5calls.org/issue/ncar-n...

In Quantum Mechanics, Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything | Quanta Magazine Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation.

In quantum physics, even nothingness can be infinite. @georgemusser.com explains:
www.quantamagazine.org/in-quantum-m...