we're in a DIY golden age you can now build your own homemade research balloon for <$100, launch it into the sky, and follow its journey fr...

Back in May, Finland told Google in writing that its new AI data center site needed an environmental review. Google kept cutting down the fo...

Not all forests are equal, and now we can map the difference. 🌳 Meet Forest Typology (ForTy): a 10m map of natural, planted, and farmed fo...

If you explained agriculture to folks in SF, you'd blow so many minds. It's... self-replicating, recursively self-improving nanotech for the...

Electric Plant CEO @justinmast reveals how his team built a Neuralink for trees that can detect when plants are thirsty or stressed by readi...

Electric Plant CEO @justinmast explains how plants can hear insects approaching and change their chemistry to defend themselves before being...

Francis Fukuyama on AI and the loss of thymos. https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2102205445884755975/photo/1 https://twitter.com/FukuyamaFr...

nature tends to be more complicated than we imagine we might think reading a book is all audio. but it's possible babies watch our mouth mo...

Here's my conversation with Anthony Kaldellis about the deep history of the Roman Empire in the west and the east (the Byzantine Empire). Th...

An earthquake warns you before it hits. Almost everybody wastes those seconds looking around the room. That's what you're watching here. Th...

I created a webpage with 5,000 bugs: https://www.emergentmind.com/bugs Not the code kind. The kind with legs. - Watch 100 real species wa...

"people denied humanness, especially emotional capacity and human nature traits, to AI advice seekers in comparison to human advice seekers"...

Ever wondered which birds are singing outside your window? A developer in Norway built an e-ink frame that turns bird calls into 1800s illu...

Voice has made me more productive going on walks in nature than staring at my screen which is an incredible feeling https://twitter.com/reac...

touching grass

Had @Ada_Palmer back on – this time to talk about Machiavelli, perhaps the most misunderstood thinker of all time. Machiavelli cut his teet...

NIST is advancing nine new post-quantum signature algorithms as potential candidates for future standardization. We take a closer look at al...

In the Austrian alps hiking + running the @cursor_ai agents

Where we live it has rained every day so far in 2026.

Washington Square Park smells like freshmen year Spring is here