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Government-Funded Alchemy
Examining Marathon Fusion's "Scalable Chrysopoeia"
Jul 19
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June 2025
The Cognitive Debt of Digging Through Preprints
Your Brain on MIT Media Lab
Jun 19
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The Cognitive Debt of Digging Through Preprints
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May 2025
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
May 16
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AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My!
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April 2025
One Alien’s Trash is Another Alien’s Treasure
On the scientific debate around the first observed interstellar guest
Apr 12
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One Alien’s Trash is Another Alien’s Treasure
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February 2025
Scaling Surprise in the Southern Skies
YR4, Italian Cities, the Chicxulub Impact, and Vera Rubin
Feb 25
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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.
Feb 18
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You Can Just Run Contests
If you know me, it’s no secret that I love competitive forecasting.
Feb 2
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You Can Just Run Contests
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January 2025
🎵 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.
Jan 27
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Executive Orders Tracking Document
I didn’t intend to send out my first post until the weekend, but some folks online gave me the idea to make a spreadsheet tracking the status of the…
Jan 23
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Welcome
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Jan 20
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