First commercial-scale fusion plant plans announced, to be built in the early 2030s

Roger Penrose's biography

Renaissance Philantrophy (and within, a link to recent research on wearable cortisol trackers!)

Bringing Elon to a knife fight

Google Willow, their new quantum chip

Something I long suspected: Most of senescent cells are immune cells (hence immune rejuvenation should also solve cellular senescence)

This year in biology: 2024; of particular interest is the brain control of bodywide inflammation through the vagus nerve

And this year in medical innovation

The Case for Clinical Trial Abundance & On how to test more drugs

Undoing Philosophy

Claude wants to be nice; thogh this still does not count as emergent situational awareness, as the model is explicitly told it is in training.

Pig kidney (with 10 gene edits) successfully transplanted into humans for the first time

Shinzen Young's meditation manual

Oligo conjugates to cross the BBB

Prince Rupert's drop

Robert Ludlow on his emotional processing journey

Tales from the trenches at the Arizona TSMC fab

Sasha Chapin on meditation tradeoffs

Michael Nielsen on being a wise optimist about science and technology

Falstaff waffles

How to be a better conversationalist. Or: yappers vs question-askers

Cozymaxxing in hotel rooms, the importance of light

A proposed mechanistic explanation for how inflammation can accelerate aging

Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill made an old cement factory into his home and workplace

A critique of David Deutsch's philosophy. For more, Huemer's critique of Popper.