The journal Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (HSNS) is inviting short essays (800-1K words) revisiting "classic" works in the history of the natural sciences. These will be collected in a special issue planned for 2027. If you have an idea, please contact me. (I'm an associate editor)
Data centers are a physical manifestation of AI infrastructure and they've become a flashpoint precisely because they're tractable. They exist in specific places, consume specific resources, can be seen and pointed to. I spoke with @lorenaoneil.com @rollingstone.com about our urgent AI reckoning.
Worth a try. And I’m thinking there are Marines saying, “if we’d been running this, everybody would be at Waffle House by now.”
While Washington wages war on science, NASA just sent humans to the Moon's vicinity for the first time since 1972. Bravo #TeamNASA — proof that public science, when it's funded and trusted, still does extraordinary things.
I'm teary eyed. Damn. I miss looking forward to astronauts going into space. I grew up in the shadow of Nasa in Texas and it was a big part of life for a lot of us.
🚀🚀🚀
#ArtemisII
Aesop: I TOLD YOU
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But does it still feel good to be out of the rain?
"I got my candy--all of it."
This is why Dickens novels adapt so well to the limited series form.
“When I use a word... it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
— Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Yes. Oh, yes.
My governor! @govandybeshear.bsky.social
Bruce - Streets of Minneapolis
Lexington, Kentucky. Here we go. ❄️
ICYMI — Trump leaked this text from Emmanuel Macron where he says “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland”
How do you say “ask Putin” in French?
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
The message of Trump’s letter to the prime minister of Norway signals that the president “genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues.
Do you know what a commonplace book is? Well, among other things keeping one is the subject of this micro-course on close reading! A commonplace book is a fun, easy, low-stakes way to deepen your relationship to reading. Here we go...
Great resolution. Two for one.
The one that started MTV:
youtu.be/W8r-tXRLazs?...
1998 me, quietly cooking brunch, listening to NPR and
[crashing noises]
2025 me, breaking the time barrier: Listen. Donald Trump is going to become
President, twice. He’s going to bulldoze a third of the White House and paint gilt on the rest and NPR is going to call it “very aesthetic”!
How I'm walking out of 2025.
Zelensky’s reaction to Trump’s statement that he "wants to see a successful Ukraine."
The days between the years.
WORD! #9LC
