Samir Varma
@samirvarma.bsky.social
Physicist, author, inventor, hedge fund manager, green tech pioneer. Beatles & Pink Floyd fan. I love AI, physics, science, markets, economics, squash, guitar.
Welcome to “necroprinting”—3D printer nozzle made from mosquito’s proboscis arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Welcome to “necroprinting”—3D printer nozzle made from mosquito’s proboscis
They’re quite a bit cheaper than manufactured nozzles if you can dissect them.
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December 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Welcome to “necroprinting”—3D printer nozzle made from mosquito’s proboscis arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Welcome to the Crazy CAFE - Marginal REVOLUTION marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Welcome to the Crazy CAFE - Marginal REVOLUTION
To let Americans buy smaller cars, Trump had to weaken fuel-efficiency standards. Does that sound crazy? Small cars, of course, have much higher fuel efficiency. Yet this is exactly how the Corporate…
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December 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Welcome to the Crazy CAFE - Marginal REVOLUTION marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
'Golden Retriever Personality' May Hold Some Truth as Humans Share Same Genetic Roots www.discovermagazine.com/golden-retri...
'Golden Retriever Personality' May Hold Some Truth as Humans Share Same Genetic Roots
Learn about how humans and golden retrievers share genetic traits that make us more likely to experience fear, anxiety, and embarrassment.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
'Golden Retriever Personality' May Hold Some Truth as Humans Share Same Genetic Roots www.discovermagazine.com/golden-retri...
India's Caste System is entirely uncivilized and indefensible. Part 1 of 2: open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
India's Caste System is entirely uncivilized and indefensible. Part 1 of 2: open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
How can we decide when an AI is conscious?
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November 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
How can we decide when an AI is conscious?
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November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Unique Protein That Helps Tardigrades Endure Deadly Radiation Could Help Us Fight Cancer www.discovermagazine.com/unique-prote...
Unique Protein That Helps Tardigrades Endure Deadly Radiation Could Help Us Fight Cancer
Learn how tardigrades are able to tolerate extreme radiation with a unique protein that unwinds their DNA.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Unique Protein That Helps Tardigrades Endure Deadly Radiation Could Help Us Fight Cancer www.discovermagazine.com/unique-prote...
MIT physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene news.mit.edu/2025/physici...
MIT physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene
MIT physicists observed key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene. The findings could lead to the development of higher-temperature superconductors.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
MIT physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene news.mit.edu/2025/physici...
You Can Now Invest In A Hedge Fund Dedicated To Hermès Bags
You Can Now Invest In A Hedge Fund Dedicated To Hermès Bags
Luxury asset investment company LUXUS debuts a fund dedicated to Hermès Birkin and Kelly bags—and investors get first dibs on the purses.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
You Can Now Invest In A Hedge Fund Dedicated To Hermès Bags
Just how much money does India waste on its Olympics of Useless Knowledge? open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just how much money does India waste on its Olympics of Useless Knowledge? open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
ChatGPT, Claude, Grok acquit teen accused of robbery www.theregister.com/2025/11/08/c...
ChatGPT, Claude, Grok acquit teen accused of robbery
: All three acquitted a teen in a mock trial based on a case where a judge ruled guilty
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November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
ChatGPT, Claude, Grok acquit teen accused of robbery www.theregister.com/2025/11/08/c...
Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/d...
Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now
: Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/d...
Cafe in Dubai offers the world's most expensive coffee at $980 a cup: "It's like honey" www.cbsnews.com/news/worlds-...
Cafe in Dubai offers the world's most expensive coffee at $980 a cup: "It's like honey"
The new record staggered some people, though residents also said it was par for the course for the desert city with a luxury lifestyle.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Cafe in Dubai offers the world's most expensive coffee at $980 a cup: "It's like honey" www.cbsnews.com/news/worlds-...
Australia to force energy groups to offer free daytime electricity www.ft.com/content/3467...
Australia to force energy groups to offer free daytime electricity
‘Solar Sharer’ plan aims to ease demand on grid and redeploy excess power from rooftop solar network
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November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Australia to force energy groups to offer free daytime electricity www.ft.com/content/3467...
Unexpected Evidence of Life Found in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks Using AI | Discover Magazine www.discovermagazine.com/unexpected-e...
Unexpected Evidence of Life Found in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks Using AI
Learn how researchers traced chemical evidence of early life in ancient rocks and found signs of photosynthesis nearly a billion years earlier than expected.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Unexpected Evidence of Life Found in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks Using AI | Discover Magazine www.discovermagazine.com/unexpected-e...
Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown
Touts, and ordinary consumers, will no longer be able to charge anything more than price at which they bought ticket
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November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
What do Indian sports get right (a lot) that American sports do not (a lot)? open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
What do Indian sports get right (a lot) that American sports do not (a lot)? open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration
In a Stanford Medicine-led clinical trial of a wireless retinal prosthesis, people with advanced macular degeneration regained enough vision to read books and subway signs.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Frontiers | Astrophysical constraints on the simulation hypothesis for this Universe: why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation www.frontiersin.org/journals/phy...
Frontiers | Astrophysical constraints on the simulation hypothesis for this Universe: why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation
IntroductionThe “simulation hypothesis” is a radical idea which posits that our reality is a computer simulation. We wish to assess how physically realistic ...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Frontiers | Astrophysical constraints on the simulation hypothesis for this Universe: why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation www.frontiersin.org/journals/phy...
AI jokers take Vision Pro's new headband to wild extremes www.cultofmac.com/news/vision-...
AI jokers take Vision Pro's new headband to wild extremes
The newly expanded M5 Vision Pro headband goes wild in user mockups envisioning armored Samurai warriors, "Star Wars" characters and more.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
AI jokers take Vision Pro's new headband to wild extremes www.cultofmac.com/news/vision-...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die? arstechnica.com/features/202...
Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?
Doctors share top concerns of AI surrogates aiding life-or-death decisions.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die? arstechnica.com/features/202...
This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/20/1...
This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle
Competition to deploy commercial brain-computer interfaces is heating up.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/20/1...