Rowan Hooper
Journalist and podcast host @newscientist.com. Former Tokyoite. Books: SUPERHUMAN (2018) and HOW TO SPEND A TRILLION DOLLARS (2021). Next book: TOGETHERNESS (2026). すごい!
- This protest has done a good job of communicating that Eni, one of the world's biggest oil and gas corporations, is sponsoring the 2026 Winter Olympics
- It's interesting how ~15 years ago we thought the threat from Christianity was confined to distorting the science curriculum, and now it's more about facilitating authoritarianism
- Reposted by Rowan Hooper@sammyroth.bsky.social reporting that the Post cuts include 14 climate journalists: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
- Since I went to Bubala in Soho I’ve been thinking about the *sensational* vegan food, and will try and recreate the charred mushroom skewers
- What a story! "After the call, he passed out from exhaustion" - no shit! Give that lad a medal! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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- The latest brain-on-a-chip news sees brain organoids get blood vessels m.youtube.com/watch?v=NlCj...
- But why do the bots “want” to engage in this social network cross talk? #Moltbook
- And less elliptically the core of this piece: arstechnica.com/information-...
- The world, the universe and us: 🧠Mini human brains grown with blood vessels ☀️The governance paradox of solar geoengineering 🐛Wonders of the "Chinese Burgess Shale" open.spotify.com/episode/7Ie9... with @alecluhn.com @carissacwwong.bsky.social and @pennysarchet.bsky.social
- “It’s a species in despair. They’re doing crazy things”: Svalbard polar bears. Here’s one I saw last year.
- Some of these fossils from the Huayuan assemblage ("the Chinese Burgess Shale") are amazingly detailed. Over half a billion years old. This is Allonnia, a Cambrian sponge-like animal
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- I imagined a thin mask made using self-adaptive photochromism material to conceal identity and escape AI surveillance www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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- Reposted by Rowan HooperHUGE moment for the EU car market as battery EVs overtake petrol cars for the first time ever But there's no "natural" demand for EVs amirite? Article by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
- Spent a memorable evening looking at glow worms on the shoulder of the giant
- Five days left to help the @nationaltrust.org.uk purchase land in Cerne Abbas. Do chip in to keep the Giant's pecker up.
- Part of the polycrisis is the “governance paradox” of solar geoengineering
- Just watching an egret follow a cormorant along the stream apparently hoping for startled fish
- Reposted by Rowan HooperWestern countries are hitting refugees twice: they are making it harder to claim asylum *and* they are cutting aid to troubled regions. I went to Sudan, the world's worst humanitarian situation, where the UN refugee agency has had to cut half its staff. Please have a read: as.ft.com/r/df593f1e-e...
- I loved the role of nature in Hamnet. It's very true to the play: Hamlet understands that life is interconnected, that ecosystems are based on recycling: "A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of the worm"
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- Reposted by Rowan HooperSome of Saturn’s moons sculpt its rings with gravity. Here’s Prometheus (right) dragging ripples through the F ring as it passes. Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute #astronomy
- Great and ominous example of "life, uh, finds a way" www.newscientist.com/article/2512...
- It looks like bare earth because the snowdrops are growing among black mondo grass
- Reposted by Rowan HooperYou may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse. A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!” A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉
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- It's actually quite hard to decide on just which is the worst idea www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnVJ...
- Podcast: the worst ideas* of the 21st century 💥Social media 💥Bitcoin 💥Carbon offsets 💥Effective altruism 💥Alternative fuels *(in science and tech) open.spotify.com/episode/0Kbr...
- Reposted by Rowan HooperQuick thread on how it is shocking the government has supressed this report, but it is equally shocking that anyone should be surprised by its contents. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524657...
- The huge scar on Mars is a canyon system called Valles Marineris. New evidence suggests it was once full of water and connected to a vast ocean.
- T rex also had very small hands
- A human waves to us from 68,000 years ago www.newscientist.com/article/2512...
- China has by far the largest installed capacity of wind turbines at 600 GW 💨
- Mark Carney's Davos speech got a lot of praise. This jumped out at me as chimes with theme of my book: "In this world you need a web of connections."
- Proofs of TOGETHERNESS just arrived! (Pub June 4 but available for pre-order!)
- So... Air Force One lands in Zurich, then Trump flies to Davos on Marine One, then the Beast takes him to the WEF. Presumably Marine One and the Beast get air-freighted, what a palaver
- Missed headline opportunity: "These aren't the droids you're looking for" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Rowan HooperCat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure
- Sci-fi fans of yore: Blake’s 7 reboot www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/bl...
- The massive increase in Sargassum seaweed in the ocean is very worrying - but could there be a solution? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
