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The Cognitive Debt of Digging Through Preprints
Your Brain on MIT Media Lab
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AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My!
The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm
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One Alien’s Trash is Another Alien’s Treasure
On the scientific debate around the first observed interstellar guest
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Scaling Surprise in the Southern Skies
YR4, Italian Cities, the Chicxulub Impact, and Vera Rubin
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Dark, Dark Oxygen
How a Nature paper commissioned by its own detractors and the credulous science reporting that followed sank the prospects of deep-sea mining.
You Can Just Run Contests
If you know me, it’s no secret that I love competitive forecasting.
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🎵 He’s Making a PlasticList, He’s Checking it Twice… 🎵
(Thank you to the many people who subscribed because of the executive order tracking document.
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