Welcome to today's #GlobalScienceShow as part of #FUTURES2020

From now until 6pm GMT we have a new researcher every 20 minutes ready to share their work with you!

What's going on? Check out the schedule below for info on all presenters!

First up at 12.20pm is @JessieW_Palaeo

All presenters will post content to their Twitter account highlighted in the schedule above. We'll then retweet in the thread below!

You can also check out everything going on by following the hashtag #GlobalScienceshow
A strong opening to the day discussing fossils, climate and theres even A QUIZ.

If you know me, then you know I LOVE A QUIZ!!!

#FUTURES2020

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Here's a screenshot of Jessie's quiz, if you would like to try and match the pollen to the plant!

@JessieW_Palaeo #FUTURES2020
I am genuinely smiling so much. Penguins (and specifically Gentoo's) are my favourite animal.

It's so exciting that three new species of Gentoo penguins were recently discovered 🐧🐧🐧

#FUTURES2020

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Underwater robots gliding through lakes in the dark sounds like it could be part of a horror movie

But in reality, these amazing machines could help us monitor bodies of water much more efficiently

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Please add your own.

2/ The Magic Question: "What would need to be true for you


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“Gun to the head—what would you decide now?”

“Fast forward 6 months after your sabbatical--how would you decide: what criteria is most important to you?”

4/ Other Q’s re: decisions:

“Putting aside a list of pros/cons, what’s the *one* reason you’re doing this?” “Why is that the most important reason?”

“What’s end-game here?”

“What does success look like in a world where you pick that path?”

5/ When listening, after empathizing, and wanting to help them make their own decisions without imposing your world view:

“What would the best version of yourself do”?
So the cryptocurrency industry has basically two products, one which is relatively benign and doesn't have product market fit, and one which is malignant and does. The industry has a weird superposition of understanding this fact and (strategically?) not understanding it.


The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.

This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.

The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."

This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.