Benjamin Tseng

One of the great lessons of the last few years of geopolitics and economics is that it’s not enough to simply have moral/legal authority and money, real power and prosperity requires actual physical inventory and manufacturing capacity.

When I was an elementary school student and first heard of “global warming”, I thought the solution to climate change was simple: just plant more trees!

Immune cell therapies like CAR-T continue to provide some nearly miraculous therapeutic power.

What makes this social change — where parents, especially in East and Southeast Asia, previously heavily favored having male children and now much less so — extra surprising is that many of the technological factors that drove the gender selection prefere…

Despite all the speculation over why Amazon is laying off 14,000 workers, as of this writing, and with a few exceptions I’ll note below, I don’t personally worry a great deal about AI taking away jobs currently.

Earlier this year, a Chinese company called DeepSeek took the AI world by surprise by releasing an incredibly cheap, performant reasoning model called DeepSeek R1.

Source: Nano Banana Turning 40 is a milestone that should come with a manual.

Huntington’s Disease is one of the classic “uncurable” neurodegenerative diseases.

Let’s summarize the case for measles vaccination: Measles is deadly — prior to the measles vaccine, of the 500,000 cases/yr that were reported, 400-500 died and 48,000 were hospitalized.

Nutrition is a field that is fraught with studies that are not powered or designed well enough to make strong conclusions about what types of diets are the “best”.