If the overriding priority really is "securing the future of civilization" then I thought of 20 things billionaires can do NOW right here on Earth instead of far-fetched Moon/Mars dreams Folks, if we can't reach prosperity within our own planet's boundaries, we'll never do it anywhere else either

Look how hard it is for him to say no. He looks like he's sucking on a lemon just to get that word salad answer out When it is this hard for the people in charge of our national health research infrastructure to tell the truth about easy and obvious things, we are in deep doo-doo

Journalists arrested. Protestors murdered by the state. Religious nationalists at every level. This administration has been stunningly bold in their assault on our rights. Not even trampling on one of the deep cut amendments that no one remembers, they’re just coming right after number 1

So many incredible applications of AI are being overlooked by the world because a few companies are obsessed with building slop meme machines and chatbot tamagotchis

1.24 The 1st, 2nd, 4th are not hypothetical. They are inalienable. Today will not be forgotten.

@pbs.org has had my whole heart since I was little little, so it is very surreal to be writing for a PBS Digital Studios show! Here is my first episode of Be Smart: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBX... Thank you @drjoehanson.bsky.social & team! My nose knowledge now knows no bounds 👃

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

If the hollow souls on the authoritarian right are so certain that agents are acting within their rights when detaining or killing US citizens, they should have no problem with this

Tough weekend to be a team that lost to us

So… every single word of this is now true. We are now in that world. Sorry, Carl

Linda Perry from 4 Non Blondes wrote and produced Christina Aguilera’s hits “Candyman” and “Beautiful” I feel like more people should know this

"Let me read/watch that for you" content is so tiresome and destructive to actual journalism I think people sharing their connection and reaction to events can really help news penetrate society's numbed attention, but barfing up someone else's work and saying "look what I found" is C- mindset

In 1996, only 48% of Americans believed aliens were probably real. Things are not moving in the right direction! 🫠 www.newsweek.com/alien-invasi...

In the sense that “unhealed emotional and spiritual trauma” means multiple mutations in genes involved in cell proliferation, DNA repair, and immune system evasion, this is true

Numerous videos are using an unauthorized model of my voice to narrate AI slop. And YouTube just told me this doesn't violate any privacy rules! This is unquestionably me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F4N... Apparently YouTube doesn't care about protecting our identities from AI theft. Infuriating.

@pbs.org & @drjoehanson.bsky.social doing the lord's work & letting ppl know that genetics isn't as simple & convenient as the Punnett Square, & that life is so complex & messy that even the simplest, most mundane things about us are still the result incredibly complex systems interacting 🧬

I refuse to believe this is not a Monty Python sketch. No notes. Next-level hilarious! www.youtube.com/watch?v=53w9...

Dangling the idea of a 50 year mortgage as a solution to home ownership relies completely on assuming that the average American can not do basic math And sadly, that might not be a bad assumption 😐

I had the honor of seeing Watson's racism on display first-hand In grad school, he was the invited guest for a speaker series I ran with other students. At dinner he looked my Latina classmate in the eye and said "Your people don't usually have the work ethic to succeed in this field!" Bad guy.

In 1953 James Watson revealed the double helix structure of DNA He spent the rest of his career revealing how great scientists can be awful people www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

My kind of abundance

It's easy (and usually fun) to dump on pundits. But I think both of these things can be true 1. Very few Dems think algebra is racist or banning plastic bags is a big priority 2. Lots of people *think* D's are obsessed with these things because being a Democrat is historically unpopular and uncool

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Super cool that the FDA is out there telling doctors the opposite of what the president said as he was vibing through a press conference

More people need to realize politics has devolved into sorting people into buckets and keeping them there 1. Pick position (e.g. vaccines r scary) 2. Signal "if you're one of us, you must believe [1]" The reality of the position doesn't matter to these people. It's all just shepherding for power

Kakistocracy kills.

We can save RFK Jr some time here, because we already know a lot about acetaminophen and autism! There’s no increased risk of autism from use of this drug. This isn’t based on some small study. It’s thanks to a beautiful study of literally millions of children… wapo.st/4nkMdCO

My woe was over the character limit

Asimov wrote “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” The loss of any life to political violence is a profound failure of humanity’s potential. We must resist the gravitational pull toward dehumanization and vengeance no matter how much we disagree with someone Our future depends on it

No one in Texas is surprised that the world epicenter of weird little brother energy is leading the charge on attacking academic wrongthink. Look at what they consider normal!

The board is wrong. But politics is a game of perceptions more than it is about reality (which I wish wasn’t true but 🤷‍♂️). And plenty of bad actors have been able to make these perceptions more salient/popular, and retcon reality in order to erode trust in institutions. None of this is an accident!

When you remember that much of the modern GOP mission revolves around weakening institutions by eroding our trust in them, this seems like a big win for them

Had no idea these guys were into BJJ

The quacks and hucksters have invented a remarkable self-reinforcing perpetual persecution machine: Refuse to engage with their ideas, and it confirms their ideas are being suppressed But criticize their ideas, and it confirms that the "establishment" is conspiring to protect entrenched beliefs

The problem here is they are taking a reasonable point of view (you should be able to feel safe in your city and not be surrounded by garbage and dangerous drugs) and then turning around and criminalizing the mere existence of people they refuse to help get off the streets or give medical care to

Anyway, it's obvious why a place dedicated to "the increase and diffusion of knowledge" would scare these people

The authoritarians are mad at the Smithsonian for challenging the circa-1940s Disney version of history that they so badly want to be true, but it's clear that the US government REALLY wanted it to be a place for fossils and cool rocks (great idea) govtrackus.s3.amazonaws.com/legislink/pd...

As an Austinite I don’t think I’m alone in preferring that 78-year-old Doggett retires, lets Casar win the new district (Greg rules), and Doggett can be a shoe-in for Austin mayor in 2028 to protect the city from the mentally incompetent Texas state government

Yes. Hahaha. YES Prepare for me to be insufferable, potentially for the next 160 days or longer 🤘😎 Hook ‘em

For surveys like this, you can usually attribute the high uncertainties about obvious things (e.g. Earth orbits the sun) to lack of education or question confusion The more alarming trend is that since 2021, conspiracy thinking has noticeably increased and agreement with science has decreased

The USA continues to leap face-first onto the rake of scientific self-owns faster than any other country in modern history. From energy to medical R&D and everything in between, just a stunning trajectory of ignorance and squandered opportunity. The future demands better

We teach about the Lysenkoism when we want to showcase how politics can push a nation’s science to become deadly pseudoscience. In the future, I wonder if they’ll replace that lesson with RFKJrism

TikTok has absolutely cratered people’s narrative attention spans. I make educational YouTube videos with deliberate acts to build story, and I purposely loop back to ideas to reinforce then, but if it takes longer than 3 minutes to watch then inevitably someone comments “get to the point”

sounds like a great way to make sure we don't lead in AI or high-tech innovation

The New York Post invited someone to complain that an exhibit built by the only species in Earth's history to ever explore its own origins and build public shrines to share its knowledge does not sufficiently celebrate the "exceptional place of humans in nature" nypost.com/2025/07/26/o...

I simply refuse to believe that this man and I are the same age

Tired: #FloridaMan Wired: #FloridaFauna

Parents should be free to teach their kids if the local school system isn't setting those kids up for success, but if "evolution is real" and "guys who owned slaves weren't 100% great" are the ideas you have a problem with then you're not doing your kids any favors www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/s...

This interview is very good and underscores just how boldly the US leapt onto the rake with both feet when Republicans crippled renewable energy, EV adoption, and battery investment in their latest tax bill, ceding even more of tomorrow's energy dominance to China www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...

If shit ever really hits the climate fan and we someday need to turn down the warming dial in a hurry, cloud seeding/albedo enhancement is one of the few options at our disposal But distrust in institutions & rise of paranoid politics make studying this impossible www.politico.com/news/2025/07...