by Debi Lewis | Mar 13, 2026 | Science Demystified
Oh man. Agents, OpenClaw, and my goodness what is going on? If you haven’t read this yet, please do. (Thanks Allan Drummond for bringing this to my attention!). TLDR for this post: serious academics (like Scott Dodelson in the hyperlink above) have now been...
by Debi Lewis | Feb 27, 2026 | Science Demystified
The architecture of complexity: The generative secret behind emergence In 1962, a polymath named Herbert Simon wrote a paper called ‘The Architecture of Complexity’. And to us, it is one of the most important papers ever written. Complexity isn’t a lot of stuff, it’s...
by Debi Lewis | Feb 9, 2026 | Science Demystified
Meet SynCom15: A Synthetic Microbiome that Outsmarts Superbugs Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to modern medicine. The WHO warns of a post-antibiotic era, where simple infections could once again become deadly. One of the culprits: multi-drug...
by Debi Lewis | Jan 26, 2026 | Science Demystified
What if computation isn’t about FLOPS at all? Every year, computers get faster, bigger, and hungrier for power. (Or they become faster, cheaper, and smaller depending on how you look at it.) Regarding larger compute, we measure growth of compute in terms of...
by Debi Lewis | Jan 26, 2026 | Featured, Science Demystified
Why we think Emergence is the Future of Science Science has spent centuries breaking the world into parts. Physics gave us atoms, biology gave us genes, chemistry gave us reactions. Reductionism has been great, useful, and applicable. But it is reaching its limits....
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