Really interesting overlap between Art and Science here in the back and forth on Starry Night and Turbulence. This weeks post on my Forbes column. www.forbes.com/sites/adamfr...

"We love to talk about Nature and its harmony and balance. But the Universe does have this other aspect embodied in volcanoes, exploding stars, and of course the Big Bang itself." This weeks Everyman's Universe post www.everymansuniverse.com/p/the-univer...

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone." @adamserwer.bsky.social

My @forbes.com piece on the approaching Winter Superstorm and what it should remind us about the Earth. We don't need to save it, we need to be scared sh&tless of it. www.forbes.com/sites/adamfr...

Speaking of the Institute for Arts and Ideas I am excited to be part of their HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN festival this May in Hay England. I love that it's billed as THE WORLD'S LARGEST PHILOSOPHY & MUSIC FESTIVAL. Hell yeah! howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay

Very excited to be part of this Feb 2 debate via Institute of Art and Ideas ( @iai.tv )with Micheal Levin Science Beyond the Physical: Is materialism holding science back? iai.tv/live/science...

With so many constellations of new communications (wireless) satellites launching over the next decades (hundreds of thousands) one wonders if we are about to make LEO unusable.

“Atomic-6 is positioning Space Armor as an alternative to those metallic shields, arguing that advances in composite materials can reduce mass while improving performance.” Cool

"I want to begin a brief discussion about this question: Can you live a life with a deep spiritual practice that is also committed to the beauty and power of science? Based on my own experience the answer is a resounding yes." Part 1: Which words? www.everymansuniverse.com/p/how-to-liv...

Plumes of Water from an Icy Moon, Avengers Doomsday and Satellite Dogfights. Oh and the greatest beat in the history of Hip-Hop because... why not? This weeks News Round-up from Everyman's Universe. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/plumes-of-...

Nice piece!

"OpenAI announced that users will soon be able to upload their medical data into its bot ChatGPT for more personal health recommendations" What could possibly go wrong?

A wee discussion of panspermia. Are star systems swapping spit (and life)? This week's Everyman's Universe post. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/maybe-eart...

Whoa! The Everyman's Universe newsletter went from 0 to 4000 subscribers this year. Thanks everyone. Here's what to expect in 2026 www.everymansuniverse.com/p/what-s-com...

My first post for @Forbes Anti-predictions for 2026. Stuff people say will happen that ain't gonna happen: UFOs as Aliens; AGI; 3I/Atlas forbes.com/sites/adamfr...

I’d say experience is the precondition for pattern recognition. Phenomenal presence is prior to sensorial specifics (I quess 😀… good question).

We only had about 1200 words to tackle this big beautiful idea. If you want a deeper dive then read my @noemamag.com piece. noemamag.com/why-science-... Or better yet, read our book "The Blind Spot. Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience" lareviewofbooks.org/article/what...

Oh my god this nails it completely.

Continents and oceans: we both. But it didn’t have to be this way and on most planets it probably isn’t. That’s important because truly complex life may need dry land to get going. Today's Everyman's Universe post. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/freaky-ear...

"The spectral similarities indicate that 3I/ATLAS may be a primitive carbonaceous object, likely enriched in native metal and undergoing significant aqueous alteration during its approach to the Sun." Not a friggin alien spaceship arxiv.org/abs/2511.19112

"This correspondence places 3I closer to barely- or non-active 1I/Oumuamua than primitive, ice rich 2I/Borisov, suggesting that ISOs are often highly thermally processed before ejection into the ISM." Not a friggin alien spaceship. arxiv.org/abs/2512.07318

My @theatlantic.com piece on the emerging new "Physics of Life". Complexity science, information theory, network theory... a whole new trans-disciplinary way of asking an ancient question. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Right, you have check for the hosts. We are the real "Blind Spot Podcast". Not those other posers 😀 (no offense intended to those other posers).

The Blind Spot Podcast was an Instant Hit in 2025 according to Spotify. Have you been tuning in to our conversations about Life, The Universe and Everything? It's science from a different perspective. The band = me, @evanthompson.bsky.social, Marcelo Gleiser.

I LOVE the show so far. That's a cool question. Would it be a major evolutionary transition? In the classic sense or in the "Hard Steps Problem" sense? As you say, it depends on what the consequences are on a planetary level.

What is it like to be in a hive mind? Are you a slave to the larger intelligence? Or can you still retain your individuality while being immersed in the warm thoughts of collective? Today's Everyman's Universe post on #Pluribus www.everymansuniverse.com/p/pluribus-a...

Really looking forward to this meeting.

As you'll see from the post, I am mostly talking about Earth orbit. I'll do another post on cis-lunar etc later.

The first era of space exploration is over. The era of commercial exploitation has begun. It's the most significant change for the human push beyond the planet since the first rocket launches of the 1950s. Here's a few things you need to know. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/space-is-c...

That too

Grateful to Philip Ball for this thoughtful piece on our recent hard-steps paper! @jmacalad.bsky.social @adamfrank4.bsky.social @astrowright.bsky.social

Great to see this excellent deep dive into the influential Hard Steps model for the evolution of intelligence and our paper showing why it’s wrong.

Hey, you wanna become an astronaut? Well you probably can't but you could win a trip to train like one. My friends over Science Alert are running a Space Coast trip sweepstakes. www.sciencealert.com/spark-into-s...

I am extremely skeptical that anything we are building now is even close to SuperIntelligence. That's not the issue as this tech gets shoved down our throats. The real problem facing us is not getting AI “right” but getting human’s wrong. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/the-real-d...

Over the last few centuries we humans have rewired the state of entire planet which is pretty amazing for a bunch of hairless monkeys But as Earth slides deeper into these dangerous changes, the question facing us as a species is “What now?” www.everymansuniverse.com/p/globalism-...

But this is lovely... "Those who follow Loeb are not enemies of science. They are, in many cases, its disappointed lovers, people drawn to the wonder of the cosmos but misled by the seduction of easy answers. The way back is not through ridicule but through empathy and gentle conversation."

"In the end, the problem is not Avi Loeb himself, but the cultural ecosystem that rewards spectacle over substance." True and the problem is still Avi Loeb.

Astrobiology turns out to have profound insights about how to create a "mature" technosphere that can endure on timescales approaching those of geology.

In case folks missed it. Here is a short post with the link to Jason Wright's explanation of the numerous problems with Avi Loeb's 3I/Atlas shenanigans. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/3i-atlas-a...

Thanks. I do go places when invited to give public talks but mostly its science travel. I really appreciate the links you send!

It's not so much about credentials, it's about decades of experience. I am not about to tell the HVAC repair person who shows up to fix my furnace that they are wrong because I have not spend a decade fixing them. When it comes to science the problem is amplified 1000 times.

A wonderful conversation with Claire Webb of @berggruen.org about "The Planetary", a new view of the human future that begins with astrobiology. Part of their new @futurologypod.bsky.social podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O95O...

Here is a great review from @leebillings.bsky.social on the actual science around 3I/Atlas. It seems like lots of folks won't care about this amazing object unless it turns out to be aliens - which it won't (though I'd be psyched too be wrong). www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Every other astronomer in the world.

Great piece by astronomer and SETI leader Jason Wright on the endless, exhausting claims about 3I/Atlas by Avi Loeb. "zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong" sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

Everyone knows outer space is big & empty but what about inner space? What about the space inside solid stuff. One of the strangest discoveries of modern physics is that solid matter is a big fat lie. Today on Everymans Universe. www.everymansuniverse.com/p/why-doesn-...

We have a faculty position open at the URochester Physics department in Complexity Science. If you are an ambitious young researcher come join an ambitious growing program. Please apply. Deadline coming very soon. apply.interfolio.com/173432

Lots of fun response to this piece. Imagining a Dark Matter "sector" for particle physics was a sensible response to data. But what if we never find Dark Matter particles? www.everymansuniverse.com/p/what-is-da...

It was one of the most unusual and most exciting meetings I'd attended. Amanda Geftner's beautiful description of last fall's "What Is Intelligence" conference held at a 13th century church in Italy. nautil.us/what-is-inte...