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“Patents are not the problem. All of the vaccine manufacturers are trying to increase supply as quickly as possible. Billions of doses are being produced–more than ever before in the

In the 1950s, nuclear was the energy of the future. Two generations later, it provides only about 10% of world electricity, and reactor design hasn‘t fundamentally changed in decades. Why

The 300-year history of vaccines as app updates: ~1720v0.1 (beta): InoculationFeatures:• Grants immunity• Usually doesn't kill youKnown bugs:• Mild disease symptoms• You're still contagious and can start an outbreakSupported

Even among techno-optimists, visions for the future often consist only of negating negatives: end poverty, cure cancer, stop climate change.These are good, but we need more. We need actual positives:

Everyone knows that correlation is not causation.Many people don't know that in scientific jargon, “predict” and “explain” are *also* not causation. They are forms of correlation.These terms can cause extreme

Lately both Facebook and Twitter have been blocking, restricting, or banning content & accounts in what seems to be an arbitrary or at least haphazard way.You may feel powerless to

Robert Gordon's *The Rise and Fall of American Growth* is one of the key texts that established the “stagnation” hypothesis. It's also a tome, weighing in at over 800 pages.I

Stagnation in a tweet:Late 19th–early 20th c.: Oil, electricity, chemical engineering, germ theory, all going on at once.Mid–late 20th c.: Information/communication technology… and that's about it.Nuclear & space aborted. Gene

The Three-Body Problem trilogy was very well-written, and I'm glad I read it.But I *hate* the message it conveys, which is roughly: “Humanity is a fragile leaf floating on the

Good lord. We have *so* much work to do.https://twitter.com/josephflaherty/status/1230972996061450241 This is an outright failure of our educational system. A 47-year-old was born in ~1973.Here are all the antibiotics discovered just

Humphry Davy’s science lectures in the early 1800s were so enthralling that Samuel Coleridge attended them to increase “his stock of literary metaphors”(from the biography Louis Pasteur: Free Lance of

I recently read a fascinating paper from 1962 on the detailed history of how the transistor was invented.What stood out was how the researchers cycled back and forth between science