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Imagine a nuclear reactor the size of a shipping container quietly powering your local hospital.

When I sat down to interview Richard Dawkins the question I had in my mind was: How did a young lad born in Kenya and raised on a foggy island across the North Sea, who had a fascination for natural history and a way with words, become arguably the world's foremost public intellectual?

Brad Smith’s comeback story shook me to my core. You might remember Brad from our podcast—he’s a dad of three suffering from ALS, aka “Lou Gehrig’s disease.”

Baby KJ lacked a working copy of a vital gene

Two flying robots recently dropped off my burrito lunch. The first one arrived so fast, in 5 minutes, I missed capturing it on video. So I ordered another and ate both.

Down a dank and narrow back alley in San Francisco, Ian Brooke and a team of fewer than ten are quietly rebuilding the future of flight.

After ~20 years of shrinkage, the Antarctic ice sheet expanded by 108 gigatons/year from 2021-2023.

Where you can stumble upon a rain god

The White House has changed a page on its website, replacing a mundane compendium of advice about Covid vaccines, treatment, and testing with a Hollywood-style poster of Donald Trump striding through the giant words “LAB LEAK”.

America outsourced manufacturing for a reason: it isn’t very profitable.

America should embrace its superpower: innovation. Innovation brings abundance, where everyone wins.

I expect to see the existence of extraterrestrial life confirmed within the next few years.

More beneficial to humankind than AI

I'm writing you from a sun-bleached refinery town just outside Los Angeles.

The Rational Optimist Diary is moving…

After 50 years of stagnation, humanity is returning to the Moon…

This is the one job AI can’t replace…

Where will you go when supersonic travel shrinks the world?

“Everything that moves will be robotic”…

This is what Matt Ridley had to say about today’s breakthrough technologies…