It’s Time to Fall in Love with Nuclear Fusion—Again
If nuclear fission is associated with catastrophe, nuclear fusion is associated with delay and fraud. The joke about fusion, the synthesis of lab-grown stars, is that it’s always 10 years…
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Should I Learn Coding as a Second Language?
“I can't code, and this bums me out because—with so many books and courses and camps—there are so many opportunities to learn these days. I suspect I'll understand the machine revolution a…
Keanu Reeves Will Never Surrender to the Machines
Do you guys love science fiction?Stahelski: I’m always big on sci-fi. Like, John Wick is hyperreal. But it’s also got this analog sense. Old computers, old suits, old stuff.Reeves: I’m…
A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What’s Left?
“Something’s happened,” I told my wife. She is a veteran of watching me try to fix my body. I told her: Where before my brain had been screaming, screaming, at air-raid volume—there was…
The Kremlin Has Entered the Chat
On the chilly, clear afternoon of February 24, 2022—the day Vladimir Putin’s forces launched their full-scale invasion of Ukraine—a handful of Russian opposition politicians gathered in…