Most "Theory of Everything" talk is wishful thinking in a lab coat. I joined @missmayim to make the case: a Grand Unified Theory has to come first — and nature only rewards theories we can actually test. Elegance isn't evidence. Full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=IwFTWTbC…

Why Evolution Hid Reality from Us. @donalddhoffman

How much bigger is a trillion than a billion? A million seconds ago: 12 days. ⇨ Your last paycheck A billion seconds ago: 1994. ⇨ Average Birth Year of X User A trillion seconds ago: 32,000 years ago ⇨ Before the last Ice Age.

I disagree, but according to @neiltyson, @elonmusk’s business plans to go to Mars are “without precedent in the history of civilization” What do you think? youtu.be/k2UtRlpWSEk

Most "Theory of Everything" talk is wishful thinking in a lab coat. I joined @missmayim to make the case: a Grand Unified Theory has to come first — and nature only rewards theories we can actually test. Elegance isn't evidence. Full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=IwFTWTbC…

I’ll never forget the day @elonmusk and I teamed up to become worth $500B on average!

Eisenhower’s warning about the “military-industrial complex” is famous, but his warning about scientific and technical elite was more prophetic. He feared a world in which universities and researchers would become structurally dependent on government money, such that contracts and funding priorities would begin to substitute for intellectual curiosity. He also warned of the mirror-image danger: that public policy itself could become captive to a scientific-technological elite. In plain English, he worried both that politics would distort science, and that science, or at least credentialed technocracy, would distort politics. That feels more relevant than ever to me.

Without looking it up, what’s the longest American English word with only one vowel?

Curiosity, and the lack thereof, killed Schrödinger's cat.

The internet so badly wants this to be alien technology. But in some ways, it's better than that. It's an alien chemistry stockroom, delivered free to our doorstep by 3I/ATLAS. A methane-rich post-perihelion outburst tells you about formation temperature and burial depth in a protoplanetary disk we'll never visit. That's the real story, but since it requires zero dead scientists, government coverups, or conspiracy, it'll probably be ignored. 🪨 Source: science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatl…

Taken from my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message ⇨ Subscribe here: substack.com/@drbriankeating

I am hitting the Big Bang Theory Circuit big time this week! To kick it off, here’s one line from Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown Substack that stopped me in my tracks: “He [me] spends his days staring into space, looking into telescopes, and wondering what lies beyond our current limited understanding of the Universe.” Most children dream of impossible futures. Most adults learn to negotiate with reality. Very few people get to spend their lives pursuing the same questions that fascinated them at age ten. What struck me most about this conversation wasn’t astronomy. It was the deeper question Mayim asks: Do our childhood dreams reveal something essential about who we are? Whether your dream was to become a scientist, artist, entrepreneur, teacher, or explorer, there is something inspiring about seeing what happens when curiosity survives adulthood. If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s too late to reconnect with the questions that once lit you up, I think you’ll enjoy her thoughtful reflection. Watch my episode with Mayim here: youtube.com/watch?v=IwFTWTbC… Read Mayim's Substack: bialikbreakdown.substack.com…

The future isn’t automatically better. We have to go make it better, or else things slip backwards.