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Guardian science editor and podcast presenter | PhD | Massive, shortlisted Royal Society Science Book Prize | Sony Award | Leaks to rzmihznkov@kilglmnzro.xln
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Great to hear Brent Seales @universityofky on this insanely impressive project 📜🌋🤖
What convinced computer scientist Brent Seales to dedicate 20 years of his life to reading the unopenable Herculaneum Scrolls? Turns out it was the very first moment he saw them…
Listen now on Where the Wild Thoughts Are, episode 5
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Putin, Xi and the obsession with radical life extension. Fascinating chat with @DrTregoning and @PjotrSauer
With Ellie Bury and Tom Glasser
#longevity
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With Ellie Bury and Tom Glasser
#longevity
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www.theguardian.com Putin’s quest for longevity – podcast At a recent ceremony for world leaders in Beijing, a hot mic picked up a surprising exchange between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping about the possibility of living to 150. Putin suggested the secret... 
“Nature does not like zombies.” arxiv.org/abs/2409.14545
arxiv.org Why Is Anything Conscious? We tackle the problem of consciousness by taking the naturally selected, embodied organism as our starting point. We provide a formalism describing how biological systems such as human bodies...