Eric Betzig

The 4,600-mile North Country National Scenic Trail is the longest National Scenic Trail in the United States. It stretches across the Great Plains, passes through 11 national forests, cuts through towns in Ohio, and winds into the Adirondack Mountains.

Walter Isaacson reveals the brutal philosophy Steve Jobs and Elon Musk both share about leadership "Jobs said the same thing that Musk said to me. People like you love wearing velvet gloves. You like to sweet talk things, sugarcoat things. He said, I'm just a working class kid and I don't have that luxury. If something sucks I got to tell people it sucks or I got a team of B players" "There are a lot of successful people who are much kinder. But it's sometimes necessary to be much more brutal and honest"

Early iSOAR 5D movie of membrane and mitochondria dynamics over 3 hrs at 3 min intervals in the head of a zebrafish embryo 6 dpf, covering a 300 x 1000 um FOV at 193 x 193 x 550 nm resolution (0.8 TB total).

Full duration and full thrust 33-engine static fire with Super Heavy V3

Amsterdam has now banned all public advertisements for meat products, in a bid to change "social norms" and reduce citydwellers' meat consumption by half by 2050. Green politicians like Anneke Veenhoff and Anke Bakker spearheaded the ban.

Here comes Ship 40 as it heads to Masseys for testing

Starbucks was started in 1971 in downtown Seattle. Howard Schultz bought it in 1987 and took it public in 1992 with 140 stores, then grew it to 677 locations by 1995. Today it has 38,000 stores across more than 80 countries. Katie Wilson was just elected Seattle Mayor on November 13, 2025 when she called for a boycott of Starbucks. Starbucks officially announced their new headquarters with 2,000 employees in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 21, 2026. Another example of how democrat socialist policies actually work out.

LOL. "Partnership with the NIH".

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.” ― Charles Bukowski

If the science is truly novel, expect resistance not applause.

In 1861, U.S. Grant was 39 years old, 5’8’’, 135 lbs, a professional failure, a drunk - and had no obvious prospects. A year later he commanded the federal army and won the Battle of Shiloh. In 1865 he defeated Robert E. Lee at Appomattox. In 1868 he was POTUS. Chin up always.

“Things being impossible is really to be determined by breaking laws of physics, we are not breaking laws of physics we are just trying to leverage them as effectively as we can” - Jacob VP Raptor The most important part of the Starship update. It’s a reframing of first principles thinking. There is incredible alpha in deep tech in understanding where the physics constraints are and what the engineering gap is. Impracticality is often misconstrued as impossible. Engineering problems as physics problems. Encouraging little to no investigation into these problems. It’s partly why it feels like a lot of our recent innovations are based on technology concepts from atomic era physics learnings. Only recently have engineers been empowered to push engineering to the edges of physics turning impossible into impractical into boring. There is a lot of reason to be optimistic about the coming decade.

Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket