Luke Glowacki

When Copernicus proposed heliocentrism in 1543, it was actually less accurate than Ptolemy's geocentric model - a system refined over 1,400 years with epicycles precisely tuned to match observed planetary positions. It took another 70 years before Kepler, working from Tycho Brahe's unprecedentedly precise observations, replaced Copernicus’s circles with ellipses - finally making heliocentrism empirically superior. Terence Tao's point is that science needs a high temperature setting. If we only fund and follow what's most state of the art today, we kill the ideas that might need decades of work to surpass some overall plateau.

Rule of thumb. Most everything you hear in a TED talk or Ted type book is either wrong, misleading, or woefully incomplete.

What are the big remaining questions about the evolution of the social mind?

Looks like a penalty for the most rigorous, theory derived, empirical research. I think most of the social/ psychological sciences are in shambles but evolutionary anthropology is vastly underappreciated.

These are both red winged blackbirds. The power of sexual selection.

With kickass figures perfect for teaching designed by @ed_hagen. These alone are worth looking at.

Everything you didn't know about the Man the Hunter conference and subsequent impact. Proud to be a part of this publication.

More confirmation that chimpanzees are not more aggressive than bonobos. Just different. Bonobos have more female to male aggression, while chimpanzees have more male to female aggression science.org/doi/full/10.11…

@michaelshermer If you are in a knife fight you've already lost

Here is Robert Trivers' guest lecture in my Chapman University course Skepticism 101, in which he regales my students with many of his theories and wild personal experiences (including how to properly win a knife fight): skeptic.com/michael-sherme…

American culture in 2026

Genetically modified pig liver keeps man alive until human organ transplant nature.com/articles/d4158…

Our latest article at @AsimovPress is a step-by-step guide to designing antibodies with BoltzGen, AlphaFold3, and other tools.

@salonium Awesome Saloni, congratulations!

This still sounds kind of crazy to me, but I'll be speaking at the TED Conference this year. They have written a very nice bio of me.

Just say No. This in 2026 in one of the leading social anthropology journals.

Fascinating Nature study shows how symbiotic bacteria in insects--they provide key amino acids and vitamins--are shedding parts of their genomes, losing their identities to become part of the host organisms. Paper: nature.com/articles/s4146… Good writeup: phys.org/news/2026-02-s…

Cultural evolution in action. Traditional beliefs reinterpreted through contemporary frameworks.

Why do we have laws against blackmail but allow NDAs? Fascinating observation by @robinhanson.