When An Orangutan Tries To Fight The Bulldozer Destroying Its Home
(E) This is an extraordinary lesson given by an orangutan to humankind. You can only watch this video and be left speechless. Humankind’s invasion of every inch of land and […]
The New World Disorder or the Erosion of the Multilateral World Order
(E) The January 3, 2026 U.S. military operation in Venezuela as well as any comparable use of military force to seize a sitting sovereign head of state, departs from the […]
La 20ème heure
(E) On my way to and from work, I have started listening more and more to podcasts featuring writers, philosophers, sociologists, comedians, and singers. One podcast I now listen to […]
A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning for Everyone
(T) This is the third edition of the Machine Learning (ML) class that I launched seven years ago. This latest version is open to everyone—regardless of background or role. The […]
찜질방 – jjim-jil-bang
(E) Une étoile est née! Can you write a play about four teenagers candidly sharing their lives with an adult audience? Probably not — unless you’re a talented and promising […]
Please Get your Money from a Bank not a Museum!
(E) Please get your money from a bank, not from a museum! To take from a museum is to rob the future of its past.The objects it holds embody history, […]
How New Technology can Drive Sustained Growth?
(E) A long time ago, at a conference in Palo Alto, I had the chance to meet two of the most renowned venture capitalists of the time: Don Valentine and […]
University of California Wins 5 Nobel Prize in 3 Days – Sets a New World Record
(E) This summer, the current federal administration suspended crucial research funding to UCLA—and even demanded that the university pay over $1 billion back. As a result, the Institute for Pure and […]
Dead Man Walking
(E) “The use of the death penalty is not consistent with the right to life and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or […]
First AI Conference where Papers are Generated and Reviewed by AI
(T) On n’arrête pas le progrès. First AI conference where papers are generated and reviewed by AI. The advisory board includes a Nobel prize: “Open Conference of AI Agents for […]
Foundation Models & AI Agents for Gene Editing, Functional Genomics, and Beyond…
(T) I attended yesterday a lecture from Professor Le Cong from Stanford Medicine “From Code to Cure: Developing Foundation model and AI agents driving biomedical discovery“ at the Stanford’s Department […]
When Silicon Valley Plays Jazz Music and Dances Lindy Hop
(E) They gather every Wednesday night after work. By day, most of them work in a startup on University Avenue in Palo Alto — or in a well-known tech companies […]
Matisse Jazz Unbound at the de Young Museum
(E) In the early 2024, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco acquired a rare, pristine unbound copy of “Matisse Jazz”, a gift from Margaret and William R. Hearst III. […]
A Former Member of ACIP on the Dismantling of the Vaccine Recommendation Process
(E) From Harvard Medicine: “Lin Chen helped shape recommendations on vaccines. Now she worries about the future of the U.S. health care infrastructure and the spread of preventable disease.” From […]
When Glaciers are Collapsing in the Alpine Destroying Villages
(E) The New Yorker has just published an article “The Lessons of a Glacier’s Collapse” about the Brich glacier which destroyed the Blatten village in Switzerland in May of this […]
chatGPT 5 cannot Solve the First Problem of the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad
(T) The good news is that OpenAI has a model that can solve five out of the six math problems of the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). The bad news […]
The Perseids Meteor Shower
(E) We visited the Skyline Ridge Preserve on the evening of August 10th to observe the Perseid Meteor Shower. By 10:00 PM PST, the parking lot was already full, reflecting […]
How OpenAI and DeepMind’s Models Achieved Gold-Medal Standard at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad?
(T) China took the first place at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), held on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, in Australia, followed by the United States in second place, […]
Why are People Attracted to Tyrans and Willing to Obey them?
(E) Listening to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich truly requires strength and dedication. His piano trio no.2 in E minor is full of sadness and desolation, and its last movement […]
Constellations: Ensemble Magic – the Twenty-Third Season of Music@Menlo
(E) Music@Menlo chamber music festival will return this year at the Menlo School campus from July 18th to August 9th. The theme of the festival this year “Constellations: Ensemble Magic” will […]
Rubin First Look: The First Glimpses into the Deepest Cosmic Mysteries
(E) This month, I attended another lecture at Stanford University, organized by KIPAC, focused on exploring the first images from the newly operational Vera C. Rubin Observatory. It was the […]
A Random Walk into Spectral Geometry
(T) Throughout the history of architecture, certain buildings have been designed that exhibit unique or remarkable acoustic phenomena—often surprising and sometimes even astonishing. Some cathedrals, such as St Paul’s Cathedral […]
US AID Cuts May Lead to more than 14 Million Deaths Globally Including 4.5 Million Children under 5 by 2030
(E) A recent study “evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting […]
Will Texas Plan to Reduce the Disastrous Impacts of Climate Change?
(E) At least 134 lives have been lost—including 37 children—and fewer than 100 people remain missing (as of the last update), following the devastating storms on July 4th in Central […]
In 2025, the United States is Subsidizing its Coal Industry
(E) Completely kafkaesque! We all recognize the urgent need to preserve the future of our planet. That means halting fossil fuel production and accelerating—at lightning speed—the transition to nuclear and […]
2024 Key Indicators of Global Climate Change (Part 2)
(E) Following my previous post, here are the key messages and the indicators in a nice visual. Needless to say, that the worse is waiting for our kids and the […]
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