A lot of hype about the crazy big Powerball jackpot. Still, is even that prize "worth" your $2 bet? Here's some math, in a tidy @sciam.bsky.social story: www.scientificamerican.com/article/powe...

Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 20 years ago today. @sciam.bsky.social just released a podcast about how I "predicted" the storm and whether the city is safer today. www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-science-behind-hurricane-katrina-what-researchers-knew-before-the-2005/

Jaime, you did a great job explaining things in a clear and interesting way.

Hi friends! Here is a piece I wrote for Scientific American on some marine CO2 removal approaches. TLDR: Let's do great research to know if these strategies might help, but don't assume any of them will (and be especially skeptical that manipulating marine biology can safely remove carbon).

This was fun.

The kicker of the story is: "Buesseler argues that some difficult trade-offs such as this may be necessary. 'It’s a small change in biology, relative to doing nothing and watching this planet boil,' he says. But is it small?

Aside from the headline, I thought this was a well-balanced story on the ocean science community's divided attitude toward the study of iron fertilization as a potential Carbon Dioxide Removal approach www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie... I also have something to say about the final quote 🧵

I just got my updated covid vaccine booster and asked the pharmacist how this vaccine season is going. She said they've been swamped & said, "this is the kind of busy I like!"

Elephants call each other by individual names. Cool. www.tiktok.com/@scientifica...

AI can control worm brains. Yep. www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...