AI

• “How to Build the Virtual Cell with Artificial Intelligence: Priorities and Opportunities”, Bunne et al 2024

Matters Of Scale:

• “Performance Prediction for Large Systems via Text-to-Text Regression”, Akhauri et al 2025

• “Scale AI’s Spam, Security Woes Plagued the Company While Serving Google”

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

• “Genomics reveals eleven obesity endotypes with distinct biological and phenotypic signatures”, Kim et al 2025

• “23andMe Receives Court Approval for Sale to TTAM Research Institute, a Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation”

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

• “Ethically sourced ‘spare’ human bodies could revolutionize medicine: Human ‘bodyoids’ could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages”

• “Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease”, Musunuru et al 2025

Statistics/Meta-Science

Politics/Religion

Psychology/Biology

• “Replacement as an aging intervention”, Lore et al 2025

• “5 years later, with double the demographic data, naked mole-rat mortality rates continue to defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age”, Ruby et al 2023

• -“L2 Daily Solar-Induced Fluorescence (SIF) from MetOp-A GOME-2, 2007^–₁₁2018, V2” (the global distribution of all photosynthesis, measured by satellite observation of chlorophyll fluorescence: clumped and highly skewed northwards, with large oceanic deserts)

• “An analysis of the sexual dimorphism of hands: Attractiveness, symmetry and person perception”, Dane2010 (while many men don’t realize it, women are very attracted to hands)

• “Looking for Alice, Not Dating”, Henrik Karlsson2023 (dating for nerds?)

• “Spelling pronunciation” (when you mispronounce a word because you learned it by reading, “book words”)

Technology

• “How You Can Easily Delay Climate Change Today: SO₂ Injection”, Tomas Pueyo (on Make Sunsets—I attended a launch and was surprised how simple and easy the process is)

• “State of Text Rendering 2024”, Behdad Esfahbod (July 2024)

• MST RIP

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model museum

• Grid Wars 2 review, Stuart Campbell2006

• “spinguard-chrome-extension: A Chrome extension that uses AI to analyze web pages for hidden bias & manipulative content” (tech demo)

Economics

• “Journey of a pill”, Kaur et al 2025 (the intricacy of global supply chains: a humble clonapezam pill travels 52,000 km)

Philosophy

Fiction

• “Think Before Asking”, Anders Sandberg (Eclipse Phase)