Long before humans smacked “delete” to obliterate typos, before AI "wrote" for us, we fixed mistakes the old-fashioned way: by rubbing errors clean off the page. 🧪 But how do erasers erase? Here's my piece on their chemistry and evolution, for @popsci.com: www.popsci.com/science/how-...

Another piece up today! Here’s a first-of-its-kind study quantifying the impacts of insect pollinator loss on human health. 🧪🪲🌏

Semiconductors are wild: If you scaled up a dinner plate-sized wafer so the "diameter was equivalent to the distance between the GW Bridge in NYC and the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge in California, then the hole they would etch would be about the size of a thumbnail." www.investors.com/research/the...

Dear nerdy, highly technical readers: Who are your fave writers regularly covering *manufacturing decision-making, consumer hardware development, and technical aspects of the data-center buildout*? I'm looking for individual writers at news outlets as well as substacks/columnists.

Good story here w/lotta quotes from @universityofkansas.bsky.social prof Jeff Hall, making sense, as usual.

After nuking my Insta, I spoke to Stanford, UMelbourne, UKansas, and UChicago researchers to understand the benefits of deleting social media—and how to cushion the blow if you do—for @popsci.com 🧪 www.popsci.com/science/is-s...

I think we'll be looking back on AI CEOs like we do the Pets dot com sock puppet. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

what about a bar called capacity, and if someone calls or texts while you're there you can say "im at capacity rn"

My parents moved near Minneapolis and are looking for the best news outlets covering the twin cities / midwest. Got any recs for them?

www.popsci.com/science/will... 🧪

ok I just want to harp on this one more time. we are made of waves. everything is. and how am i supposed to feel grounded while knowing this??? www.popsci.com/science/why-... 🧪

very good move here: www.404media.co/public-libra...