Stories by bookofjoe

'Publish or Perish' is now a card game – not just an academic's life

How Did Roses Get Their Thorns?

Incidence of hearing loss following Covid-19 among young adults in South Korea

Italian pasta ripiena evolution: First steps toward a scientific classification

Today's AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable

Game Informer shutting down after 33 years

How to Escape from the Simulation [pdf] (2023)

What makes Mondo Duplantis the world's best pole vaulter

Public Work

Competition between slicing and buckling underlies erratic nature of paper cuts

Twisted carbon nanotubes could achieve better energy storage than Li-on

The Organ Is Still Working. But It's Not in a Body Anymore.

Is a Drug Even Needed to Induce a Psychedelic Experience?

Quantum Physics Has Reopened Zeno's Paradoxes

Faecal transplants can treat some cancers but probably won't ever be widely used

China Wants to Start a National Internet ID System

Japan cracks down on use of rideable electric suitcases amid tourist boom

Zuckerberg: Meta needs 10x more computing power to train Llama 4 than Llama 3

The Companies Realizing Theranos's Failed Dream

$500 Open-Source Tool Lets Anyone Hack Computer Chips with Lasers