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Ex Astris Scientiaby brin_macen@yahoo.com (Travis Anderson)5 Apr 2026
The Orb by Travis Anderson Chapter One "This had better be good," Celeste Rockford growled at Neela in Serenity Station's briefing room.
Gita explores the idea of “The Man of Science”
The Life of Scienceby Nandita2 Apr 2026
In 2023, sociologist Gita Chadha was chosen as the third Obaid Siddiqi Chair in the History and Culture of Science at the Archives at NCBS.
Picard's Ready Room Crystal
Ex Astris Scientiaby easinfo@gmail.com (EAS)30 Mar 2026
Picard's Ready Room Crystal by Jörg Hillebrand and Bernd Schneider When thinking about Picard's ready room desk on the Enterprise-D, there are three items that can always be found on it: Picard's...
Snail Sex Tape
Radiolabby WNYC Studios6 Mar 2026
Mar 6, 2026 In this episode, we consider a creature we often don’t think much about—the snail. And not just snails, but their sex lives. Which, as it turns out, is epic.
Black Box
Radiolabby WNYC Studios27 Feb 2026
Feb 27, 2026 In this episode, first aired in 2014, we examine three very different kinds of black boxes—spaces where we know what’s going in, we know what’s coming out, but can’t see what happens...
Steve Blank Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies
Steve Blankby steve blank10 Feb 2026
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” John 8:32 Every once in a while you learn something new that makes you completely rethink how/why an event actually happened.
2026 Labhopping Calendar is here
The Life of Scienceby aashima19 Dec 2025
The Calendar is our annual fundraising ritual. We love to work on it, and we love it so much that you all can’t get enough of it year after year.
Recording sex and gender data in clinical settings
The Life of Scienceby Sayantan Datta23 Oct 2025
On April 16, 2025, the United Kingdom (UK) Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of “woman” refers to biological females; the judgment also stated that biological sex is “binary”.
Steve Blank No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off
Steve Blankby steve blank13 Oct 2025
Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists?
Nobel Prizes: 5 Unlikely Winner Reactions, From the Unbothered to the Downright Mad
Scienceby Gayoung Lee8 Oct 2025
The Nobel Prizes are arguably the world’s most prestigious recognition anyone can receive for their work in the sciences, medicine, literature, or for world peace.
Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
Signal Blog2 Oct 2025
We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR).
Where It's at:// — overreacted
overreactedby The User As The Authority2 Oct 2025
Where It's at:// October 2, 2025 You might have heard about the AT protocol (if not, read this!) Together, all servers speaking the AT protocol comprise the atmosphere—a web of hyperlinked JSON.
Reimagining science needed now more than ever
The Life of Scienceby Nandita14 Aug 2025
“Is social darwinism a scientific theory?,” Vetti Giri asked his students at the start of his class.
Postcolonial theory has a Hindutva problem
The Life of Scienceby aashima30 Jul 2025
I am often irked by the term “Western science”. This phrase not only overlooks the global and collaborative nature of science but also carries more profound implications.
Ultra Instinct
Eric Jangby Eric Jang27 Jul 2025
Visible light occupies a small sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum, which spans radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays.
An Artist Claims to Have Created Paint in a 'New' Impossible Hue Conjured by Scientists
Scienceby Lucas Ropek24 Apr 2025
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, recently claimed to have conjured the ability to make humans see a “new color” that was beyond the “natural human gamut.” Researchers did this...
Scientists Agree That Everyone Hates Your Terrible Zoom Mic
Scienceby Matthew Gault28 Mar 2025
If your mic sucks on a conference call then everyone judges you. In our deepest hearts we all know this is true but now it’s confirmed by science.
2024 Discoveries and Beginnings
ARKives20 Mar 2025
2024 Discoveries and Beginnings Table of contents: In this blog I talk about certain tech and new words which I came across or started working with in 2024.
This $35,000 Computer Is Powered by Trapped Human Brain Cells
Scienceby Matthew Gault10 Mar 2025
Cortical Labs would like to sell you a brain in a box. It’ll cost about $35,000, and you can teach it to do all kinds of nifty things.