The work of Jamie Freestone and Mathew McGann
Founder and CEO, Health Horizon
Creator, Roam for Teamwork
PhD Theoretical Physics
Other projects
Screenwriter and researcher in Canberra
Postdoctoral research fellow at ANU
Podcast maker
Writing a book about science & meaning
If you’d be willing to die for anything, you should die for this — and you probably will. [Note: I’ve been working on something longer & more rigorous, but here
People unlike us Understanding others is hard. It’s so hard that we default to very simple heuristics when doing so. The easiest one is empathy. We have pretty good access
Nearest I can figure, we live in a world that unfolds according to locality. Take the strongest results in physics. The only nonlocal effect is quantum entanglement. Even then, it’s
To understand the world as usefully as possible, we need to go beyond the first-person perspective — not to achieve the third-person perspective or “view from nowhere,” but to achieve a
I used to be a science communicator. When I did a PhD, my research drew mainly on the philosophy of science and science studies. My postdoctoral research was getting more
Feynman was excited by nanotechnology before it was cool, and way before it stopped being cool. In 1959 he gave a lecture that’s come to be known by it’s main
Hey we’re all gonna die one day but did you know the US government has a plan for how we can all die together? Literally everyone should read Daniel Ellsberg’s
This is me on human exceptionalism for Areo, a rather good up and coming digital magazine. I point out the irony of using super-advanced scientific tools to do studies on crows to
