As ever, superb. ranging from Baudelaire to Sunset Boulevard. David seems to be lamenting missing all the fun of civilisational collapse.

Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · 11h ago

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s bad idea is a hard one to pin down: David talks to writer & literary scholar Ian Ellison about the concept of decadence, which went from explaining the fall of ancient Rome to becoming a label modern artists wanted to claim for themselves. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

🚨New post🚨 Three brain myths that need to die nicholaraihani.substack.com/p/three-brai...

Three brain myths that need to die

Did you know that your blood passes through your kidneys roughly 300 times per day?

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French holiday checklist: * on fire ✅ * immobile from torn hamstring ✅ * biblical rain and lightning ✅ * the oafs blocked by fallen trees ✅ It’s like the Odyssey, but less believable.

Well, Widow's Bay is superfun, isn't it!

The interminable discussion of the Odessey - and the blockbuster book and ticket sales - indicate quite how important and popular the HUMANITIES are. Maybe not a great idea to cut them hmmmm??

Just ran my new book through some AI/plagiarism detecting software, y'know, for reasons.

Is it bad that I have not heard of Hank Green? As a professional science communicator?

Aaah the Leto story is finally emerging from plain site. I wrote one of my interactions with him here, the most palatable. What I also witnessed was much less amusing. open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...

Working science into great movies, and also with Jared Leto

The joys of being a science advisor on movies, and the HORROR.

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Perhaps the most joyous radio I do is with Nat in this programme.

Natalie Haynes@nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 6d ago

IT'S TODAY!! Tune into BBC Radio 4 at 9am to kick off the new series. We're getting inventive in ancient Alexandria, with professors Islam Issa and @adamrutherford.bsky.social ⚗️🥽 I'm so happy to finally share these episodes with you 🥰 🎧 Listen back on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

22 years ago today, Francis Crick died. You can read about his life, his brilliance and his failures in my biography, available in hardback in the UK and USA (and as an audiobook and ebook) and soon in a chonky UK paperback.

Goodness.

Former Pingu Child Actor (BANISHED)@cursedpingu.bsky.social · last wk.

People should google "Sam Altman Sister" for no reason

EVERY. SINGLE. POINT. POint 4 and point 6 are EVERY. SINGLE. NOLAN. FILM.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

No. Someone did a TINY trial on 47 overweight people, 26 of whom had restricted eating hours. They presented their non peer reviewed findings at a conference. Science journalists who should know better bigged up the press release. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Restricted eating hours may reduce cognitive decline in older age, researchers find

Preliminary study shows older people who avoided food four hours before bed did better in problem solving tests

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I bloody love @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social translations of the Homeric epics, and here she is on Start the Week in full flow www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Start the Week - The Iliad and the right to rule - BBC Sounds

Adam Rutherford with Emily Wilson, Mary Beard and Ben Riley-Smith

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Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · last wk.

The *first* comment on The Sunday Times interview with Emily Wilson about her translation of The Odyssey and views on Nolan’s film is: “Tattoos are never a good idea.” Some bloke more bothered by the surface of Wilson’s arms than her extremely interesting thoughts.

Oh man, I've been waiting for this. Utilitarianism is a BAD IDEA.

Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s ep is about one of the central ideas in modern philosophy: utilitarianism, or the view that what matters is the greatest happiness of the greatest number. David talks to philosopher Nikhil Krishnan. Whose pleasure and pain gets to count? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

My word, Run Rabbit by Mollie Elizabeth is an absolute mad banger youtu.be/vzHOdM_8faM?...

Mollie Elizabeth - Run Rabbit (Official Visualizer)

YouTube video by Mollie Elizabeth

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Actual professor of genetics Adam Rutherford says 'no he hasn't'. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Biohacker Bryan Johnson says he’s ‘cloned himself as a baby’ to harvest its organs

‘This technology gives us a path to reverse aging,’ says 48-year-old tech entrepreneur

independent.co.uk

What’s the best fourth wall break in cinema? Some starters:

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

DMHardc@dmhardcc.bsky.social · 2w ago

No wonder it took Odysseus so long to get home with those rowers.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

My favorite part is when you see the rowers in the back

Wait what A Christmas Carol IS the prequel, surely. Ebeneezer is his first name, surely. WTF IS GOING ON HERE

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w ago

First poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”

So excited for this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMsi...

Coyote vs. ACME | Final Trailer

YouTube video by Coyote vs. Acme

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‘Homer’s original’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I will never understand why anyone ever mistook Musk for a genius. The man has the intellect of a towel rack.

Well The Avengers Doomsday trailer looks flipping great! After a lot of duds - WandaVision was the last genuinely good Marvel show. share.google/4bqhcCiJyeyh...

Did an AI write this?

Owen Boswarva@owenboswarva.bsky.social · 2w ago

"AI is likely the most significant technology in human history," says Kanishka Narayan MP, the UK's new Minister for Artificial Intelligence, in a Linkedin post www.linkedin.com/posts/kanish... #techpolicy #AIpolicy #PPEOxford #koolaid

A morsel of personal news. I joined the UCL genetics dept as a 1st year undergraduate in 1994, then the Galton Laboratory. Today I became a Professor of Genetics in the same dept, thus proving that if you hang around long enough they eventually concede.

oh yeah, go out clubbing in any northern town & all anyone is talking about is matt goodwin

Immigrants. We get the job done.

Men in Blazers Media Network@meninblazers.bsky.social · 2w ago

Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹

Tonight at the @unionchapeluk.bsky.social, @davidolusoga.bsky.social and I will be chewing the fat about history, genetics, racism, giant ground sloths, Daddy Dyer, you know, the normal stuff. Come along. unionchapel.org.uk/venue/whats-...