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Matt Ridley corrects the Daily Mail

Matt Ridley corrects the Daily Mail

Jul 25, 2025

Matt Ridley

Warning! The @DailyMail is carrying an article by me that contains numerous errors, introduced by editors while I was without access to a phone signal or internet, hiking in the Rockies.

Austin + Detroit = winning

Austin + Detroit = winning

Jul 25, 2025

Weekly Diary

Stephen McBride

Watch the news and you’ll hear America is failing. The system is rigged. The dream is dead. Our best days are behind us.

SpaceX of the sea

SpaceX of the sea

Jul 13, 2025

Weekly Diary

Stephen McBride

The ocean is the new frontier

Genomics’ is having its broadband moment

Genomics’ is having its broadband moment

Jul 6, 2025

Weekly Diary

Stephen McBride

The world’s most underrated tech

Meet the new time machines

Meet the new time machines

Jun 29, 2025

Weekly Diary

Stephen McBride

Reclaim your most valuable resource

The Henry Ford of Satellites

The Henry Ford of Satellites

Jun 20, 2025

Weekly Diary

Stephen McBride

Can you feel the Apollo 8 energy?

AI: Age (of the) Individual

AI: Age (of the) Individual

Jun 8, 2025

Weekly Diary

Stephen McBride

AI sent me into an existential crisis.

The new nuclear capital of America

The new nuclear capital of America

Jun 1, 2025

Weekly Diary

Stephen McBride

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

Matt Ridley Interviews Richard Dawkins

Matt Ridley Interviews Richard Dawkins

May 28, 2025

Matt Ridley

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?

The Neuralink mafia fixing brains

The Neuralink mafia fixing brains

May 23, 2025

Weekly Diary

Stephen McBride

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.”

Ridley: CRISPR announcement is great moment in medical history

Ridley: CRISPR announcement is great moment in medical history

May 19, 2025

Matt Ridley

Baby KJ lacked a working copy of a vital gene

Welcome to D.R.E.A.M world

Welcome to D.R.E.A.M world

May 18, 2025

Weekly Diary

Stephen McBride

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.

Honey, I shrunk the world

Honey, I shrunk the world

May 11, 2025

Weekly Diary

Stephen McBride with Dan Steinhart

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.

Did you hear the good climate news?

Did you hear the good climate news?

May 11, 2025

Dan Steinhart

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

Buy Gundo

Buy Gundo

May 4, 2025

Weekly Diary

Stephen McBride

Where you can stumble upon a rain god

Wuhan Lab Leak: Science Over Spectacle

Wuhan Lab Leak: Science Over Spectacle

Apr 30, 2025

Matt Ridley

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”.

Let’s frack manufacturing

Let’s frack manufacturing

Apr 28, 2025

Dan Steinhart

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

How America builds real things again

How America builds real things again

Apr 27, 2025

Weekly Diary

Stephen McBride with Dan Steinhart

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

Humanity’s Fifth Copernican Moment

Humanity’s Fifth Copernican Moment

Apr 24, 2025

Matt Ridley

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

Dire wolves and the age of miracles

Dire wolves and the age of miracles

Apr 20, 2025

Weekly Diary

Matt Ridley

More beneficial to humankind than AI

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