Newsletter June 9, 2025:A bioluddite's dance with Death
Decode the universe. A writer-owned popular science magazine| Sequencer
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Decode the universe. A writer-owned popular science magazine| Sequencer
Law and policy scholars consider whether pacemakers powered by the users themselves can resist corporate control, and how far the augmentation of the human body extends into the law.| Sequencer
HCN: A day in the life of a scientist studying the aftermath of the city’s deadly algal blooms.| Sequencer
The natural forces we know shape our climate future are many—and growing.| Sequencer
Chatbots won't obliterate everyone's critical thinking. Lessons from the past tech revolutions and today’s experts signal how to protect your mind.| Sequencer
Investigative journalist Alleen Brown, the host of the podcast's 12th season, spoke with Sequencer about the how energy companies use misinformation in courtrooms and the court of public opinion.| Sequencer
Engineers in South Korea developed a battery-free pacemaker powered by the beating of the heart that could, potentially, last a lifetime.| Sequencer
Centuries of scientists, physicians, and con men have tried to sell the idea of radically extending life beyond what medicine and good hygiene can achieve. Don’t believe them.| Sequencer
Surgical simulations are about more than just practicing fine motor skills.| Sequencer
Jack Lohmann shares an unpublished excerpt from his book White Light.| Sequencer
Author Jack Lohmann speaks to Sequencer about the complicated story of phosphorus: “There might be little pieces of Nauru in your teeth.”| Sequencer
Tesla’s baking sheet on wheels rides fast in the recall lane toward a dead end where dysfunctional men gather.| Sequencer
Public health-trained historian Edna Bonhomme speaks with Sequencer about her new book, “A History of the World in Six Plagues.”| Sequencer
Forest Service stock animals are indispensable to trail work on public lands in the West. Trump’s radical upheaval is accelerating the death of a disappearing art.| Sequencer
Prices are skyrocketing across the board for libraries, as books, ebooks, DVDs, and streaming get more and more expensive.| Sequencer
In his new book Air-Borne, the prolific science journalist traces investigations into aerobiology, from famous scientists like Louis Pasteur to the husband-and-wife duo who discovered how bacteria spread in the air, before being “thrown into oblivion”| Sequencer
Scientific misinformation is a community problem. We can fight back by embracing uncertainty.| Sequencer
This story was produced by writer Ray Mwareya and our friends at The Sick Times Tuberculosis (TB) and Long Covid are two diseases that have some overlapping symptoms. The two are often mistaken for each other in South Africa. Long Covid is poorly understood and acknowledged in South Africa, and| Sequencer
The genomes of extinct creatures like mammoths and giant sloths code for natural antibiotics we’ve never seen. So, now what?| Sequencer
Trying to do something, anything, about racism and fascism in the 21st century| Sequencer
Forget Cocaine Bear, it’s cocaine-impacted birds we need to worry about.| Sequencer
