I think it is way more than that. First it’s a recognition of how important and innovative the London & Bauer paper is (which has been all but forgotten).

I can't help wondering if it's a slightly heavy-handed way of getting to the idea that the wavefunction is epistemic, but I must take a look.

French’s book is amazing. A stirring argument of what’s been missed in philosophical discussions of quantum mechanics.

This makes me very sad. Breakthrough Starshot was such an exciting idea. Crazy yes, but crazy in a good way. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Last week's news was terrible all around but hidden in it all was the discovery - maybe - of signatures of life on Mars. Why the latter matters for the former. A bigger story for ourselves. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/life-on-ma...

I did not like that entry in the Alien franchise. I hear Alien Earth is really good.

Just started Cyberpunk 2077. Amazing! Did its rough start actually help the game? That question and others in today's in Everyman's Universe news round-up. @cyberpunk.net www.everymansuniverse.com/p/cyberpunk-...

This is SUPER interesting. Bummer if we leave the samples on Mars. That would be silly. Interesting possibility... life started on Mars and then was carried to Earth via rocks blow off Red Planet in asteroid impacts.

Also Pérez-Couto et al have an archive paper attempting to track the source perturber of 3I/ATLAS. They don't find strong evidence of a more "recent" stellar encounter but do conclude it was part of the "thin disk" of the galaxy.

Keto and Loeb have what appears to be a nice article on the archive about the anti-tail of 3I/ATLAS. Mathematical model seems plausible. No adding of unneeded speculation about alien origin. On a purely physics level be interested to see what comet scientists think.

Padowan, it is time.

Finally starting Cyberpunk 2077. I had to get over my addiction to Dune Awakening first. If I had to craft one more fabricator I was gonna lose it.

1) "There is a reason Science works. There is a reason why it’s given us miracles like whatever device you’re reading this on. UFOs don’t get a special dispensation." From today's Everyman's Universe www.everymansuniverse.com/p/what-s-the...

How to change your life. If you can take time each day to find the Moon, then note its phase, then note where you’re seeing it in the sky and, finally, note what time of day you’re seeing it… then the Universe will tell its secrets. I kid you not. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/where-s-th...

Here is our new paper that we're really excited about. What makes a cell different from a rock? The answer we argue is the USE of information. But information carries meaning and that changes everything if we want to understand the "physics of life". journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

It’s Big Fun. Download it and play with biospheres for yourself.

Very happy to share this new paper we've recently published. Do biospheres use information in the same way organisms do? Can we think of biospheres as agents? "Exo-Daisy World: Revisiting Gaia Theory through an Informational Architecture Perspective" iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

Do we really need a Gollum movie? How about a second season of Fallout? Are we even close to getting a handle on consciousness? All this and more in this weeks EVERYMAN'S UNIVERSE news roundup. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/gollum-s-b...

This is VERY exciting. I am really interested though in the question of M star habitability. These stars are super active and given their tint habitable zones that puts their planets 9and the atmospheres) in danger.

It's a New school year and a good time to ask what are Universities for? "To learn and question. To study and seek answers. To go beyond the day-to-day struggle for just getting by and build something that can endure and be better." www.everymansuniverse.com/p/what-is-co...

James Cameron must go beyond evil AI for movie. Polarization on social media don't need no algorithms. The physics of meteor trails. All this and more in this week's Everyman's Universe new round-up www.everymansuniverse.com/p/james-came...

Here is my interview with the always creative and thought provoking @annakaharris.bsky.social on the nature of consciousness - perhaps the most important question emerging for the 21st century. @bigthink.com bigthink.com/13-8/annaka-...

That's what I meant about getting through the next bunch of decades. Major issues like the ones you pose. Not clear we do make it. But if we do... then comes a thousand years of awesomeness in the solar system.

I have read all 9 books and watched the series multiple times. LOVE IT!

I use an image from the inside of the Roscinante as the background for my zoom calls. It’s a huge nerd test. If people know what it is, then they are my best friend for life. PS love your tag.

I linked to this in my Everymans Universe post today. I have argued elsewhere that is the greatest science fiction show ever made. www.npr.org/sections/13....

Beltalowda! That’s when the OPA rises! expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Beltalo...

I am totally down for a Martian Space Elevator!

Planets like Mars may not be the future for a settled solar system. Getting in / out of gravity wells will make construction dangerous and expensive. Building vast space cities from asteroids could be an easier path forward over the next few centuries www.everymansuniverse.com/p/mars-is-fo...

Project Hail Mary! Hungry Black Holes! Dumb-ass policies on mRNA research and more. Today's news roundup with links on Everyman's Universe. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/project-ha...

Another one bites the dust. 3rd Trappist-1 system shows no evidence of atmosphere. Are M-dwarf stars too active to allow atmospheres to survive on their planetary children? arxiv.org/abs/2508.08416

Wise words from @garymarcus.bsky.social Science is not a popularity contest; you can’t bully your way to truth. And you can’t make AI better if you drown out critics & keep pouring good money after bad. Science simply cannot advance without people sticking to the truth even in face of opposition.

Can anyone think of an example where a scientist proposes a classification scale and names it after themselves?

Mos def! 😁

Why all the headlines about 3I/ATLAS as an alien spaceship? The answer to that question comes in a single name: Avi Loeb. Nobody other than Loeb is pushing the spaceship thing. For professional astronomers it's beyond frustrating because the real story is getting lost in the noise.

But it outgassing interstellar plating 😀

Everyone should read @astrowright.bsky.social posts on Avi Loeb and the 3I/Atlas is a spaceship thang. As always Jason cuts to the core with details. It's an interstellar comet folks... that's cool enough (and I work in the "looking for aliens" field). sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

Stories were the first human technology but the rise of digital media has us drowning in them. Humans need their myth making but what happens when the noise rises above the signal. A wee exploration on today's Everyman's Universe. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/we-re-drow...

Great story about the frontier in exoplanet hunting.

Aliens eat Earth. Quantum Mechanics still freaks out physicists. Space food for everyone! All on Everyman's Universe and today's Cosmic News Roundup. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/cosmic-new...

Forget the little green men and the little grey men. We are the only humanoids in the galaxy. Here's why... today's post on Everyman's Universe. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/we-re-the-...

So says the Computational model of cognition which is profoundly flawed. See our writing on it in The Blind Spot. Also... www.everymansuniverse.com/p/you-are-no...

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Einstein explores his search for spiritual meaning The UFOs that scientists think are real, but can't explain All these stories and more on this weeks Everyman's Science news roundup. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/cosmic-new...

For this who may have missed it. My interview with @bigthink with the great director @scottderrickson.bsky.social bigthink.com/13-8/scott-d...

Hence the "giveness" I just referred to in my last post.

From that paper "The brain must construct a specific set of information about conscious feeling" This just uses "information" as the load-bearing idea for hiding from the giveness of experience. It provides the illusion of understanding when no understanding is actually present.

Indeed there are versions of physicalism within philosophy with more nuanced views. ‪@alyssaney.bsky.social‬ is writing a book on this and she has taught me a lot. But... as broad class of thinking with deep cultural influence I think the kind of physicalism I wrote about is the dominant one.

Absolutely fantastic story by @andersen on how scientific excellence and leadership get squandered by nations. An important piece from @TheAtlantic www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

From Everyman's Universe, this week's Cosmic News Roundup 7/31/2025. News you can use, or at least cool stuff to think about www.everymansuniverse.com/p/cosmic-new...

Superman is Stupid! Today's super rant and what's good and what's not in superheroes. From Everyman's Universe. www.everymansuniverse.com/subscribe