Natasha Loder
@natashaloder
Health Editor, The Economist. free words: overmatter.substack.com/subscribe
Heathrow Runway 3: coming soon to a much-loved British landscape near you.
Farage commenting on the democratic process as per @nyt www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/w...
I’m hoping to go to Uganda and I went to see the nurse at my GP practice just now. He recommended eight vaccines in four jabs and I said yes to every single one. 💉💉💉💉 Vaccines work and they save ✌️ ✌️✌️✌️
I would place a small wager, that you could get the same effect with some cheap textured insoles designed for this kind of thing. Lots of people sell them--they are cheap and will work in any pair of trainers
That was published in this chef's kiss of a medical journal: Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. Impact factor illustrated below (note the scale is logarithmic.)
Independent trials using synthetic patient cases to stress-test chatbot responses, ongoing monitoring for model drift. The case foronly stronger than when I wrote this. overmatter.substack.com/p/we-need-to-know-more-about-how-llms
Bryan Johnson earlier in the stadium that is to host the Enhanced Games tomorrow.
I fear this thread, which started as a joke, may turn into a full time job.
Lovely words from @rogerhighfield.bsky.social about Craig Venter @jcvi.org
Would it be unfair of me to mention that Joe Rogan was not wearing a suit to the Oval office? And dressed rather like Zelenskyy!
American drinking is finally falling. But is it a turning point or a statistical illusion? Two very different generations have been hiding inside one trend line. A slightly data nerdy post by me on Overmatter, my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/overmatt...
Biology beats chemistry. 🧬🤜⚗️ Small molecule drugs are yesterday's technology according to new @citeline which shows that biotech drugs now 50.1% of the pipeline after three-decade march.
Private school pupil killed himself after ChatGPT told him how - The Telegraph. Another shocking tragedy. Unforgivable.
What I love about this paper on chatbot sycophancy is how they did their experiment, by comparing chatbot responses and human responses to Am I The Asshole threads on Reddit. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
America plans to allow the sale of around 14 peptide drugs, which are untested, unregulated but which pose safety risks according to the FDA. What could possibly go wrong? Read on to find out more. 💉https://open.substack.com/pub/overmatter/p/biohack-inject-repeat-the-age-of
