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Tag: Jeffrey Epstein

Woolly mammoths and a quasi-techbro

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I wrote for The Wire Science about George Church’s idea to repopulate the Arctic tundra with woolly mammoths […]

September 18, 2021 Science

Melinda, Bill and Jeffrey (Epstein)

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I’m not sure what to make of Bill Gates as he features in the New York Times‘s report […]

May 18, 2021 Op-eds

To read or not a bad man’s book

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The Life of Science team uploaded the video of their webinar on July 10, about the construct of […]

July 23, 2020 Culture, Science

Redeeming art v. redeeming science

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Recently, someone shared the cover of a soon to be released book, entitled The Physics of Climate Change, […]

June 29, 2020 Analysis, Culture, Science

A science for the non-1%

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David Michaels, an epidemiologist and a former US assistant secretary of labour for occupational safety and health under […]

February 2, 2020 Op-eds, Science

Necessity and sufficiency

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With apologies for recalling horrible people early in the day: I chanced upon this article quoting Lawrence Krauss […]

January 13, 2020 Science

Accumulation then philanthropy

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Peter Woit’s review of a new book about Jim Simons, the mathematician and capitalist who set up the […]

November 23, 2019 Science

Toppling Epstein’s intellectuals network

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While there have been no other high-profile exits from the MIT Media Lab after Ethan Zuckerman and J. […]

September 9, 2019 Op-eds, Science

Another exit from MIT Media Lab

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J. Nathan Matias, a newly minted faculty member at Cornell University and a visiting scholar at the MIT […]

August 22, 2019 Science

Joi Ito’s nerd tunnel vision

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On August 15, Joi Ito, the director of MIT’s famed Media Lab, published a post apologising for fraternising […]

August 21, 2019 Science

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