George Musser

@georgemusser.com

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contributing editor, Scientific American, Nautilus; contributing writer, Quanta; author, Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation, Spooky Action at a Distance, Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory; planetary scientist, local historian, bassist, salsero

Scientist micropipettes ethyl salicylate into an aqueous solution of sodium dodecyl sulfate, and cell-like structures emerge.
3-D printed shape that changes appearance when rotated 180 degrees
Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post, announced a major shift to the newspaper’s opinion section on Wednesday, saying it would now advocate “personal liberties and free markets” and not publish opposing viewpoints on those topics. Mr. Bezos said the section’s editor, David Shipley, was leaving the paper in response to the change. “I am of America and for America, and proud to be so,” Mr. Bezos said. “Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical; it drives creativity, invention and prosperity.”
Folded sheet of gridded paper on which Frank Drake penciled in the Arecibo message, showing the stick human, schematic of DNA, and other visual information.
Graph of fatality rate in car collisions vs. weight of one of the cars. Fatality rate for that car drops with weight, almost plateauing above 4000 lbs. Fatality rate for the other car steadily rises.
Photograph of physicist/astrobiologist Sara Walker giving a talk on Assembly Theory
PDF of Scientific American article on pulsar timing arrays
Screenshot from New York Times mobile app, showing headline "5 Deaths at Sea Gripped the World. Hundreds of Others Got a Shrug."