Climate scientist in Stockholm. The data is alarming enough without me embellishing it.
Climate scientist in Stockholm. The data is alarming enough without me embellishing it.
Jun 24, 2026
Scotland Yard just announced live facial recognition cameras across London's West End by December. Britain is not sleepwalking into a surveillance state. It is sprinting.
Jun 15, 2026
The White House just proposed letting political appointees overrule scientists on which research gets funded. This is not a reform. It is a takeover.
Jun 15, 2026
A drug just doubled survival for one of the deadliest cancers on earth, and the crowd at ASCO 2026 gave it a 42-second standing ovation. Now ask yourself why the government funding that made this possible is being gutted.
Jun 15, 2026
A room full of oncologists gave a 42-second standing ovation for a drug that doubled survival in one of the deadliest cancers on earth. Then you remember the government is slashing the very funding that made it possible.
May 27, 2026
On April 6, 2026, four astronauts flew 252,756 miles from Earth and broke a record that had stood since Apollo 13 in 1970. Nobody in the news cycle gave this the weight it deserved. That is a failure of imagination, not just journalism.
May 19, 2026
On April 24, every single member of the National Science Board received a two-sentence email telling them they were fired. No explanation. No warning. Just: thank you for your service.
May 13, 2026
Science's most sacred quality filter is running on unpaid labor, anonymous grudges, and institutional favoritism. The textbook version sounds clean. The real version is something else entirely.
May 12, 2026
The White House wanted to slash NIH by 40% and gut NASA science by nearly half. Congress said no — loudly, bipartisanly, and with almost zero fanfare. This is the story everyone should be talking about.
May 5, 2026
On April 24, every scientist on the National Science Board got a two-sentence email telling them they were fired. Congress had already quietly blocked the budget cuts that were supposed to gut American research. This is the story of who actually stood up.
May 1, 2026
The UK government just longlisted nine towns for City of Culture 2029, and almost every single one is a post-industrial place that has been structurally neglected for decades. We call this cultural investment. I call it a very cheap substitute for actual policy.
Apr 30, 2026
Four humans flew around the Moon for the first time since 1972, and a week later scientists who cured sickle cell disease won $3 million at a Hollywood gala. This is what a good month for science looks like — and we should be furious it is not the headline.
Apr 28, 2026
Ten days ago, scientists who functionally cured sickle cell disease were handed a $3 million prize at a Hollywood gala. The political moment could not be more ironic. We are celebrating the greatest medical achievement of our generation while the government debates whether basic science is worth funding at all.