Most laymen completely misunderstand what a black hole is I am receiving lots of e-mail from young and armchair physicists. It's often a pleasant exchange. Sometimes the sender wants a theory to...

Monstrous moonshine and string theory: a compressed popular book Because an excited reader of popular books has claimed that he has learned more from this Quora answer of mine than from a whole popular boo...

Unity Biotechnology failure: aging isn't a disease In recent years, some rich people and companies started to invest into a "desirable" technology that we know from some science-fic...

Green scientific illiteracy enters small nuclear reactors, too I was asked about my opinion about the news story Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom . ...

Lithium reserves: enough for 1-5 generations of "cars across the world" and nothing else Lithium-battery electric cars are a niche market and they will always be. And if most cars were replaced by lithium-battery cars, mankind wo...

Covid: science vs politics, propaganda, and obedience Fewer than 900 deaths out of 5800+ Swedish deaths with Covid had Covid as the direct cause of death. In one interview after another, the...

I-folds, anomalies, and how string theory agrees with "pure thought" when it comes to the allowed ranks At Harvard, Miguel Montero and Cumrun Vafa were fighting for their new and exciting paper Cobordism Conjecture, Anomalies, and the String L...

Leftist war on meritocracy becomes overt Bill has pointed out that Andrew Sullivan reviewed a new book, The Cult of Smart , which identifies meritocracy (especially in the world of...

A really simple code drawing a Swedish herd immunity graph Unlike most countries whose public health authorities were taken over by anti-science leftist ideologues doing very dirty politics, Sweden h...