Amos Zeeberg

@settostun

Freelance science and technology journalist. No job is too big; no fee is too big.

Tokyo
Joined June 2008
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  1. Oct 11

    That's no moon—it's a moon moon. Yes, moons can have moons, too. But a moon moon moon is a moon too far.

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  2. Oct 4

    Is it lame to help debunk a story that's "too good to check"? Because I just found out that Victorian doctors dod *not* treat hysteria with vibrators.

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  3. Oct 3

    Mike Trout is apparently using secret team stats to improve his first step toward fly balls. Do they have a new take on psychology's unsolved "outfielder problem"?

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  4. Oct 3

    Law enforcement mucking around with device updates is the new law enforcement mucking around with vaccination drives (e.g., )

    Installing software updates promptly is the most important step you can take to protect your phone and computer. Undermining confidence in updates would be a huge blow to everyone's online security.
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  5. Oct 3

    Evolution is how biologists can show physicsts their field is waaay beyond stamp collecting.

    Of course it is retrograde and ignorant to remove evolution from any biology syllabus, but I'd argue that we need more of it everywhere. It should be the central organizing principle of biology teaching, giving the subject a logic beyond lists of parts.
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  6. Sep 30

    In turbulent times, we need the universe to retain its sense of dark humor.

    When your special issue inadvertently drops at exactly the wrong time.
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  7. Sep 28

    Considering his potential legal trouble, maybe Elon shouldn't have guaranteed that first private moonflight to someone else. Might need that escape route.

    Musk is in serious trouble
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  8. Sep 27

    “I stand to believe there’s no such thing as a ‘he-said-she-said’ case…As a prosecutor, it’s your job to break down every minute of the encounter so that details on one side pushes the facts over the edge.” Ford's testimony is pretty much doing that.

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  9. Sep 27

    Is someone going to shine a big 🦄 symbol in the sky, like the Bat-Signal?

    Unicorn alert! Jonathan Rothberg's handheld ultrasound company, Butterfly Network, raises $250 million at a $1.25 billion valuation.
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    Sep 19

    What a wild story: a prisoner serving 39 years to life started making drawings of golf courses. The drawings made their way to Golf Digest, which wrote about him, then realized his conviction was sketchy, then investigated, and now he's free

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  11. Retweeted
    Sep 15

    Individual dots moving along straight lines. 🧐

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  12. Sep 12

    Sexism + denial = extreme danger

    watchers, take note: Hurricanes with female names are more deadly. Why? People take them less seriously:
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  13. Sep 12

    Did 3 attorneys really tell Susan Collins that threatening to make political contributions against her was "a clear violation of the federal law on bribery"? And the uncritically repeated that? Even for an editorial, that's crap.

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  14. Sep 12

    This is…pretty surprising, no?

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  15. Sep 11

    Nice explanation why you shouldn’t worry about the booze-is-bad-for-you study by

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  16. Sep 5

    It’s all of them!

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  17. Sep 5

    It’s just like in Veep when President Selina Meyer is searching for what staffer called her “the worst thing you can call a woman.” (2/3)

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  18. Sep 5

    I know what “senior official" wrote the “resistance" op-ed. (1/3)

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  19. Sep 4

    Big personal news: I recently made the move to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I'll be reporting on tech & science from this vibrant part of the world. Exciting!

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  20. Sep 4

    Putting the "what?!?" in "water buffalo"

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    That dark shape swimming near you might be.. a WATER BUFFALO!
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