As helium-3 runs scarce, researchers seek new ways to chill quantum computers
- Dilution refrigerators are cool (literally), and their reliance on nuclear disarmament is always a great lab tour anecdote.
The Boring Part of Bell Labs
- The famous lab was mostly kept alive by unglamorous applied engineering, not the Nobel-winning research.
Energy Predictions 2025
- The (optimistic) case for solar-plus-batteries eating the grid.
My Left Kidney
- A first-person account of donating a kidney to a stranger, the effective-altruism reasoning behind it, and the bureaucracy that nearly stopped it.