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Asimov Press is a publisher focused on the science and technologies that promote flourishing. Part of @AsimovBio. Supported by @AsteraInstitute and @Stripe.
Cambridge, MA
Joined September 2023
RT @MissionBarns: A Night of Food Futurism hosted by @alexandrabalwit @asimovpress, we served our cultivated🐷fat meatball sliders. As @drb….
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Last October, we published a sci-fi story about a future restaurant in San Francisco that serves diners cultured meats, sonic-aged drinks, and exotic GMO fruits. In April, we brought it to life. We opened a pop-up restaurant and served diners a futuristic meal from 2055. 🔻
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RT @NikoMcCarty: Today @arcinstitute released the first version STATE, a virtual cell model. I wrote up a short blog post about it. You ca….
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If someone does this, we'll fund the first episode and hire an editor to produce it.
YouTube channel idea: Recreating famous biology experiments. Explain what was known at the time, go through the initial observations, and make the "discovery.". e.g. Monod's biphasic E. coli growth curves, T.H. Morgan's fly breeding programs, and so on.
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RT @NikoMcCarty: Weekly Links #3. 1. “The brain works at more than 10 bits per second.”.2. A brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis that works with….
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RT @RenPhil21: Great to see this kind of thoughtful, in-depth dialogue on how research organizations can drive breakthrough science. 👏 @er….
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RT @ARIA_research: "I think about our programmes as funding a constellation of teams that can lead to massively transformative outcomes at….
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In 2006, scientists isolated 500 random microbes from soil & exposed them to 21 antibiotics. On average, microbes were resistant to 7 or 8 of them. 2 strains were resistant to 15 antibiotics, incl. compounds that were entirely synthetic and recently approved for clinical use.
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RT @eric_is_weird: Big post today: a two-hour interview with @ilangur on the metascience experiment that is @ARIA_research. Ilan was fanta….
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RT @eric_is_weird: @ilangur @ARIA_research @AsimovPress The summary piece can be found at @AsimovPress. The full interview and transcript c….
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Just Published: A look inside @ARIA_research, the UK's Bet to Build Scientific Revolutions. We sent @eric_is_weird, author of the popular metascience blog "FreakTakes," to interview @ilangur, CEO of ARIA. Check it out at the link below.
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In 1983, essayist Lewis Thomas received received an invitation to help replace the ancient Seven Wonders with seven modern ones. Unable to settle on a list of man-made monuments, Thomas chose instead to make a list of natural Wonders. His final list featured everything from
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Charles Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, once theorized that organic sludge creates rocky planets, rather than the other way around. Understanding that limestone and chalk are formed from compressed shellfish and other organic remnants, Darwin extrapolated this to the scale
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RT @nemocentric: My latest, for the brilliant @AsimovPress, on the quip that life is "just" slime on a rock, spinning around an average sta….
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Excellent article on the origins of the Research University.
If you've ever been personally victimized by the need to publish or perish, you can blame one man, and his name was Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen
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