Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die? arstechnica.com/features/202...

This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/20/1...

The USA has a distinguished cricket history. No, I am not making this up! open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...

Google’s AI Cracks a New Cancer Code - Decrypt decrypt.co/344454/googl...

You can now get paid to fold your laundry, as long as you're willing to film it www.businessinsider.com/ai-startups-...

What will AI look like in 2030? epoch.ai/blog/what-wi...

A built-in ‘off switch’ to stop persistent pain | Penn Today penntoday.upenn.edu/news/select-...

N,N-dimethyltryptamine mitigates experimental stroke by stabilizing the blood-brain barrier and reducing neuroinflammation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Vacation? Honeymoon? No, World Champions! The story of how an accidental champion produced an $18.5 billion business. open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...

Man gets drunk, wakes up with a medical mystery that nearly kills him arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

How Easter Island’s giant statues “walked” to their final platforms - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/science/2025...

OpenAI's Nick Turley on transforming ChatGPT into an operating system | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/10/08/o...

Fat-loss drug Mounjaro now India's No. 2 pharma brand | India News - The Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/fat-lo...

Claude Sonnet 4.5 knows when it’s being tested www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-son...

A very nice post from @Atabarrok. Prediction Markets Are Very Accurate - Marginal REVOLUTION

What is India's true national religion? How did it come about? open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...

AI-Designed Phages www.asimov.press/p/ai-phages?...

Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent phys.org/news/2025-09...

IBM wows with Granite 4 LLM launch and hybrid Mamba/Transformer architecture venturebeat.com/ai/western-q...

Wild Dogs Follow Familiar Routes When Traveling, Unlike Free-Spirited Wild Cats That Explore New Places www.discovermagazine.com/wild-dogs-fo...

I had an excellent time talking to Gwendolyn (@profdolske.bsky.social) and Rudy about Free Will and AI: www.goodisinthedetails.com/podcast/epis... and podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g.... They both ask superb questions.

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Indians are the world's largest consumers of Whiskey. Need I say more? Yes! open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...

Quantum computers have finally achieved unconditional supremacy www.newscientist.com/article/2496...

World's first ‘behavior transplant’ between species achieved newatlas.com/biology/unkn...

Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ | Quanta Magazine www.quantamagazine.org/self-assembl...

AI Music Artist Lands Multi-Million Dollar Record Deal — Report  www.mandatory.com/news/1663026...

My daughter's first, "Physics World" (ie, non technical) article: physicsworld.com/a/physicists...

Study: Chimps consume the equivalent of two alcoholic drinks per day - UPI.com www.upi.com/Odd_News/202...

Just how ridiculous is the Indian property market? My new post is up: open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...

India’s New Universities Offer Hope as Study-Abroad Dreams Fade: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

You can't eval GPT5 anymore — LessWrong www.lesswrong.com/posts/DLZokL...

An eight-year asymptomatic retention of a knife blade in the chest: a case report academic.oup.com/jscr/article...

The world really is quantum all the way down. This has consequences. Read my book for many of them! amzn.to/4aMQJD1 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Researchers Who Brought Quantum Mechanics into the Macroscale World | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

Cannabis extract found to be effective for lower back pain | New Scientist

Mathematicians Discover Prime Number Pattern in Fractal Chaos | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

My second post on India's (normal) language chaos is up! open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...

Another excellent post from @benyeohben: substack.com/home/post/p-...

AI has had zero effect on jobs so far: Yale study www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/a...

Square Kilometre Array datacenter needs two Faraday cages www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/s...

Taller than Mount Everest: Scientists discover the Earth’s largest mountains, but no one could ever see them | - The Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/tall...

I thought they did it only over cars? Japan seabirds only poop when they fly, study finds www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

An eight-year asymptomatic retention of a knife blade in the chest: a case report

About 125 million Indians speak some English. More than the populations of the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand combined. open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...

A single dose of LSD seems to reduce anxiety www.newscientist.com/article/2495...

Lerner Symmetry Bites - Marginal REVOLUTION marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

AirPods Live Translation Blocked for EU Users With EU Apple Accounts www.macrumors.com/2025/09/11/a...

Japanese city passes two-hours-a-day smartphone rule www.theregister.com/2025/09/24/j...