My latest story on fruit flies, #brains, and the nature of #thinking:.

No Haudenosaunee, no Olympic lacrosse. Boycott @LAOlympics2028 if the @HAU_Nationals are not allowed to compete.

newspaper writing: the birthing center where metaphors go to die.

RT @aasthajs: New podcast w/ @drmichaellevin & Pamela Lyon! . Do our cells have cognition and memory which changes how we view medicine?. W….

We Need Greenland. But Not in the Way Trump Thinks. Great think piece in @undarkmag by @uvmvermont scientist Paul Bierman.

RT @NYTScience: In a new book, geologist Paul Bierman recounts the moment he found astonishing evidence that Greenland’s ice sheet had melt….

Zoinks! Two of my photos published in the @nytimes today, part of an excellent interview with @uvmvermont scientist Paul Bierman.

This! How I'm feeling this morning about the @KamalaHarris pick of @GovTimWalz:.

Got complexity? I spoke with @LHDnets about the difference between complicated and #complex--and the launch of the new journal #npjComplexity.

The most important news story I've ever written.

Are we all doomed? "Doom is a state of mind," @adamsobel writes in @Nature. Made me think of Zadie Smith's 2014 @nybooks essay: "I found my mind finally beginning to turn from the elegiac what have we done to the practical what can we do?"

I interviewed @zeynep about the morality of #AI, social media, #climate change, capitalism & nuclear weapons. What's the glue? She says: valuing the short-term interest of powerful people, rather than the long-term interest of people in general. Read more:.

“People who thus set their lives against destruction have necessarily confronted in themselves the absurdity that they have recognized in their society.”. — Wendell Berry

Zoinks.

Got (enough) trees? @uvmvermont research in the @guardian today shows threat to #climate change efforts via #tree planting: not enough seedlings. Not even close to enough.

Zoinks. Two of my photos, published in @WIRED:.

5/5 plus a placement in @USATODAY. How many ways can I spell "cognitive dissonance" considering how delighted and worried I am while looking at the same photo?

4/5 and the @washingtonpost ran a big version in the print edition:

3/5 The first one also got picked up in @WIRED:.