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Palmer’s: What do a San Francisco bar and an Austrian lingerie brand have in common?
There’ a bar on Fillmore in San Francisco that has the same name and logo as a popular Austrian lingerie brand with dozens of branches…
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Not a Solution to the Fermi Paradox: Aliens travelling too fast isn’t a likely explanation why we haven’t observed them
The most likely solution to the Fermi paradox is that being intelligent isn’t a particularly successful evolutionary strategy. Our level of smarts took a long…
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The Pareto Frontier: How good can you get?
The Pareto frontier is about tradeoffs. Systems can typically be optimized along one dimension only if there are tradeoffs along others. You can build as…
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Neanderthal Guys and Human Gals: Did human women prefer Neanderthal men?
Neanderthals and non-African modern humans interbred 49,000 to 45,000 years ago. Only 2% of our DNA comes from Neanderthals. A recent paper by Alexander Platt,…
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AI and Therapeutic Abundance: Clinical trials are unlikely to get much cheaper
AI can help to design drug candidates, but as Ruxanda Teslo argues on Asimov Press, it’s not going to lead to therapeutic abundance anytime soon.…
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The Shoe Thief: I’ve been protective of my hiking shoes ever since they were stolen by a jackal
The Skeleton Coast is a stretch of desert in the North of Namibia that for more than 300 kilometers isn’t crossed by any road. Those…
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