Greg Stephens
370 posts
@greg_stephens
germany took 40 years campaigning against nuclear, 20 years to dismantle it, and one week after they blew up the last cooling tower they realize it was a “huge, strategic mistake”
Protocells from three inorganic salts, some formaldehyde and water? They grow? They synthesise organic molecules of core biomolecular classes: amino acids, sugars, lipid-like motifs? And, there are similar structures in today's oceans? Yes! Read on. arxiv.org/abs/2601.11013
Many physicists have come to believe that a mystery is unfolding in every microbe, animal, and human—one that could redefine the field for the next generation, @AdamFrank4 writes. theatlantic.com/science/2025/1…
New from @instituteGC: a proposal for Lovelace Disruptive Invention Labs Is a better science possible, & how can we build it? 🏗️ Britain should pioneer a complementary model for research at the intersection of science & engineering – inverting core assumptions of modern public R&D
RIP Erik Bollt (1967–2025): dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/pot… Applied mathematician Erik Bollt, a well-known person in the applied dynamical-systems community, died suddenly last weekend. You can read about Erik's research on his web page: webspace.clarkson.edu/~ebollt/
Can you spot the flaw in the below graph? After all, it suggests New Zealand had much higher cumulative excess mortality in 2020-24 compared to Sweden and US... You can read more on the assumptions behind excess mortality – and how to make the metric tell any story you like – in my recent piece: kucharski.substack.com/p/excess-morta…
🏀A theory for studying how electrons buzz around could help NBA players tighten up their game. 🧵
