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Cosmic musings

I Brought Galileo’s Telescope to a Navy SEAL’s Gun Range

The Question No Scientist Should Answer

The Day Alfred Nobel Learned He Was Dead

The Pope Has Entered the Chatbot: AI Gets Its First Encyclical

I stopped fact-checking three years ago

Need power for your data center? Just get a Reactor That Runs Itself

The peer reviewer was wrong. But if you tell him, he’s gonna….

I've never had a boss and it ruined me

The control group was lying to you the whole time

Evolution builds what your blueprints can't

Don't Lie. But if you do, only lie once.

a book cover of a book

Disappointment is the universe's loading screen

Evolution builds what your blueprints can't

I kept citing a dead theory because everyone else did

I fed the machine that was eating my field

Peter Higgs Wouldn't Get Hired Today. Neither Would I.

Astrology Is Fraud (And Your Field Has the Same Problem)

I nearly ghosted a Pulitzer Prize winner (here's what that arrogance cost me)

Even Einstein’s Blunders Were Blunders

Why are so many scientists in the Epstein Files (including me)

The Asimov Paradox

The Gossip Paradox: Your "Drama" Is Actually Intelligence Work

The Thermodynamics of the Vanities (Or what 1347 crackpots taught me about attention)

The real reason your goals fail (it’s not willpower)

The number I didn't expect to care about

How I Contaminated 500 Experiments (By Talking Too Much)

Charlie Munger Should Never Have Gone To Santa Barbara

The Cleveland Problem (Or: How I Learned to Stop Rushing and Notice the World)

When civilization fails (and it will)

Getting Fired Was The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

The Cleveland Problem (Or: How I Learned to Stop Rushing and Notice the World)

Plankton Run This Planet. You're Just Renting Space

From Sinai to Sputnik, One Simple Tool That Saved Civilization

You probably got this planet-sized fact wrong (87% did)

The Dangerous Side Effect of Being So Smart

Your Colleagues Are Wrong
About Focus

My Birthday Gift to You 🎁

The University Delusion

The Physics of Focus

NASA 'gotcha' that self-owned Moon landing deniers

The School of Rocks: From Stonehenge to the 3I/ATLAS to the Perseid Meteorshower

Stolen Valor, Academia Edition

Lessons from Mavericks: Rethinking How Science Moves Forward

AI Is Our Infallible GPS to Nowhere

The Questions That Waste Our Wonder

What’s your half-life?

Advice for life that's literally set in stone

M.A.G.I.C. Exclusive - Vera Rubin Observes the Universe!

The Galilean Paradox: When Recognition Corrupts Discovery

When Your Degree in Thinkology Costs More Than a House

Social Media Just Solved My Biggest Problem in 20 Minutes

I'll Never Teach THIS the Same Way Again

The $200,000 Dating App: What Elite Universities Are Really Selling

The Lens That Broke the Bible — and Unlocked the Cosmos

When Netflix Explained the Multiverse

Our Best Theory Was THRIVING—Until this Experiment Changed Everything

The Moon Landing Wasn’t Fake and Gay

The Orchid's Secret AI Doesn't Want You to Know

If You Can Still Read This, You’re a Miracle

Suppositicii 2.0: Tenure, Gladiators & the Hunger Games of Academia

Professor Brian Keating

Constellations Aren’t Real. So Why Do We See Them?

Are Scientists Just Welfare Queens in Lab Coats?

A Parent-Professor’s Hard Truth About College Admissions

Why People Have Turned on Science

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