Mark Fischetti

Should You Spend $2 to Win $1.3 Billion? Inside Powerball Math Winning more than $1 billion in Powerball is an exciting possibility, but keeping a cool math mind can help you decide whether that opportunity is worth your $2 bet

A lot of hype about the crazy big Powerball jackpot. Still, is even that prize "worth" your $2 bet? Here's some math, in a tidy @sciam.bsky.social story: www.scientificamerican.com/article/powe...

20 Years after Katrina, We’re Still Learning from the Storm That Changed Everything Two decades after Katrina, we revisit the storm and discuss the evolution of hurricane preparedness since then.

Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 20 years ago today. @sciam.bsky.social just released a podcast about how I "predicted" the storm and whether the city is safer today. www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-science-behind-hurricane-katrina-what-researchers-knew-before-the-2005/

Jaime, you did a great job explaining things in a clear and interesting way.

Hi friends! Here is a piece I wrote for Scientific American on some marine CO2 removal approaches. TLDR: Let's do great research to know if these strategies might help, but don't assume any of them will (and be especially skeptical that manipulating marine biology can safely remove carbon).

This was fun.

The kicker of the story is: "Buesseler argues that some difficult trade-offs such as this may be necessary. 'It’s a small change in biology, relative to doing nothing and watching this planet boil,' he says.
But is it small?

Scientists Will Engineer the Ocean to Absorb More Carbon Dioxide A research consortium plans to revive geoengineering trials of the controversial iron fertilization technique to pull carbon dioxide from the air, despite public backlash

Aside from the headline, I thought this was a well-balanced story on the ocean science community's divided attitude toward the study of iron fertilization as a potential Carbon Dioxide Removal approach
www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
I also have something to say about the final quote 🧵

I just got my updated covid vaccine booster and asked the pharmacist how this vaccine season is going. She said they've been swamped & said, "this is the kind of busy I like!"

Elephants call each other by individual names. Cool. www.tiktok.com/@scientifica...

Scientists Make ‘Cyborg Worms’ with a Brain Guided by AI AI and tiny worms team up to get to treats

AI can control worm brains. Yep. www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...