Harriet Weber
@harri.bsky.social
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Movies *you can smell* have a rich and weird theatrical legacy that links Shakespeare to Walt Disney to uh... (checks notes) Aerosmith. Read all about it in @popsci.com! www.popsci.com/technology/m...
In 1960, movie theaters tried Smell-O-Vision. It stunk.
The short-lived experiment pumped scene-appropriate scents into cinemas.
popsci.com
When you kill it, it doesn’t die: the jellyfish that has cracked the secret of immortality. Turritopsis dohrnii has the ability to turn back into a baby jellyfish & grow up all over again. 🧪🪼 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘When you kill it, it doesn’t die’: the jellyfish that has cracked the secret of immortality
Turritopsis dohrnii has the ability to turn back into a baby jellyfish and grow up all over again
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No, computer, it's the Strait of Hormuz. Strait. Of. Hormuz. This is the upshot of widespread, automatic audio transcribers.
Really interesting story here. You know how the hyperscaler cowboys are powering their data centers with gas turbines? It turns out the demands of AI are not very friendly to those turbines. They're supposed to last 5+ years & instead they're wearing out in under 12 months!
Harriet Weber@harri.bsky.social · last wk.Here's the deal with the pre-review study Tesla funded on turbine carnage. This is my first piece on the Data Centers Breaking Things beat. TLDR; AI training is wearing out, even breaking, a critical source of energy for AI training www.investors.com/news/turbine...
Here's the deal with the pre-review study Tesla funded on turbine carnage. This is my first piece on the Data Centers Breaking Things beat. TLDR; AI training is wearing out, even breaking, a critical source of energy for AI training www.investors.com/news/turbine...
I'm covering oil. A lot! Believe me when I say this goop is everywhere. I'm doing this unironically across the street from the La Brea "Tar" Pits. That's where my office is. This name is doubly wrong, as it translates to "the the tar tar pits." 🧪
Here's how your personal address travels from your credit card provider, through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE.
You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live
Here's how your personal address travels from your credit card provider, through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE.
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Dude, Where's My Founder? Ashton Kutcher Leaves VC Firm and Shows Which Way the Wind Is Blowing https://gizmodo.com/dude-wheres-my-founder-ashton-kutcher-leaves-vc-firm-and-shows-which-way-the-wind-is-blowing-2000780667
Dude, Where's My Founder? Ashton Kutcher Leaves VC Firm and Shows Which Way the Wind Is Blowing
The actor is starting a new firm focused on 'infrastructure, energy and deep tech.'
gizmodo.com
Oil prices hit their lowest level since Feb. 27, just before the onset of the recent round of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran. www.investors.com/news/wti-fut...
"Walking slowly / I feel I don't exist / There's no old me / Hiding in the mist" love this Lula Fortune jam music.apple.com/us/album/pre...
Prescribe The Symptom by Lula Fortune on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 8 Songs
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Reintroducing myself. Hi! I write about $, tech, science, energy, and data centers. Hear something interesting? I'll honor your privacy. DMs open. Or, message me on Signal: hew.04 🧪
Six months-long exposure taken using a pinhole camera containing photographic paper. It tracked the Sun’s movement in the sky from winter to summer solstice. Each curve shows one day and stretches of cloudy days can be seen as dark patches. #solarcan 🔭🧪
instead of a verification code they should make it a validation code, so instead of "######" you check your texts for a message like "im beautiful" and go and type it in
Some personal news! I'm thrilled to share that I'm reporting full-time on energy, AI infrastructure, finance, and more for Investors.com / Investor's Business Daily. I aspire to bring my ceaselessly curious, inner science-museum kid along for the ride.
2017: iced tea company pivots to blockchain 2021: iced tea insider trading charges filed 2026: shoe company pivots to AI infra 2030: ? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Allbirds became NewBird AI. Now it’s Smartbird.
What’s left of the shoe company after its pivot to AI (which is mostly its stock listing) has a new name and CEO, Nadia Carlsten. Smartbird also completed the sale of the Allbirds brand as it shifts i...
theverge.com
If you're feeling down, just know there are BILLIONS of marine phytoplankton working super hard to produce oxygen so we can all breathe, and we think that's really beautiful 💙🌊
To the man who walked into LA Public Library branch with an entire iMac: I salute you.
Long before humans smacked “delete” to obliterate typos, before AI "wrote" for us, we fixed mistakes the old-fashioned way: by rubbing errors clean off the page. 🧪 But how do erasers erase? Here's my piece on their chemistry and evolution, for @popsci.com: www.popsci.com/science/how-...
How do erasers actually work? It's surprisingly interesting.
To err(ase) is human.
popsci.com
Another piece up today! Here’s a first-of-its-kind study quantifying the impacts of insect pollinator loss on human health. 🧪🪲🌏
'Insect apocalypse' is already fueling malnutrition in some regions, first-of-its-kind study reveals
In a first, researchers quantify how pollinator declines contribute to food insecurity.
livescience.com
After nuking my Insta, I spoke to Stanford, UMelbourne, UKansas, and UChicago researchers to understand the benefits of deleting social media—and how to cushion the blow if you do—for @popsci.com 🧪 www.popsci.com/science/is-s...
Does deleting social media make you happier or lonelier? Short answer: It depends.
The research isn’t one-size-fits-all.
popsci.com
what about a bar called capacity, and if someone calls or texts while you're there you can say "im at capacity rn"
ok I just want to harp on this one more time. we are made of waves. everything is. and how am i supposed to feel grounded while knowing this??? www.popsci.com/science/why-... 🧪
Why don’t molecules ever stop moving?
This ‘deceptively simple’ question demands a dip into the murky waters of quantum physics.
popsci.com
