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The deep ocean floor is covered in naturally-occurring batteries that make oxygen... Wait, WHAT?!
This has HUGE implications for life on icy moons. Interesting New Paper #3...
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GUEST POST: Robert Hazen on whether there’s a “missing law of nature”
Plus a stack of notes from me, explaining how Hazen's invigorating ideas are entirely compatible with cosmological natural selection: Darwinian…
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June 2024

May 2024

My dad is still dead; but life, ah, life goes on
A personal update
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February 2024

My father has died suddenly and unexpectedly
This is for anyone who knew him
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Down to the flickering sea of quarks
Exploring the profound flaw that underlies all our current theories of the universe
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Icy Moons, 1: There’s phosphorus on Enceladus!
From alchemists to ice volcanos: an attempt to understand, and explain, the liquid water oceans sloshing about deep inside the icy moons of Saturn, …
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January 2024

December 2023

Killer new evidence that supermassive black holes may indeed form first, before galaxies. (Yeah, as I predicted...) PLUS, some more…
TL;DR: They've found the earliest supermassive black hole yet – and it weighs as much as ALL THE STARS IN ITS GALAXY PUT TOGETHER. (Interesting New…
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November 2023

If you are going to San Francisco...
Let's meet up
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Holy crap, I've just realised that cosmological natural selection gives you the structure of the universe (FIRST DRAFT #1, give me…
OK, I’ve got a brilliant idea, not yet well expressed. (I tweeted it to a grumpy old man.) Help me make it better.
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September 2023

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