Two Banks Gave Cheques 30 or 40 Years. Most of Us Stopped Long Before.
Two large banks once told me the end of cheques was 30 or 40 years away, if ever. The government’s end date is 2030. Most of us had already stopped.
The Agent That Asks Before It Answers
Agents now act for us and clones can sound like anyone. The most useful agent may be the one that slows you down. From my RTHK Radio 3 segment.
Two Brains, One Skull, and the Wrong Place to Start
Stanford found the brain is two organs grown from two different starting cells. Decades of failed lab work came from one assumption nobody went back to check. What that means for medicine, and for the times we keep trying harder at the wrong thing.
Still Running on 1569
The map on the classroom wall was drawn in 1569, and we were marked on how well we could reproduce it. Phil Whelan asked me the harder question on air: we can’t go through life re-examining everything, so how do we choose? Coffee is coffee and tea is tea. What varies is how far in you go.
The Revolution Was Invisible. And We’re Doing It Again.
In 1976, America’s best scientific minds predicted 2026 and missed the entire revolution. Morris Misel on the visibility trap — and what we’re probably missing right now for 2076.
What the Naked Mole Rat Knows (And Why the Medicine Is Already Moving)
Two signals from this week’s science — Neanderthal language DNA and a longevity gene transferred from naked mole rats to mice — point toward something larger: the medicine is moving, and we are barely noticing.
