Christopher Michel
@chrismichel
Artist-in-Residence at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine and the Long Now Foundation.
Lab Director Mike Witherell will retire in June 2026. Witherell has led the Lab through a historic period of scientific achievement and recognized operational excellence, with a deep commitment to developing the next generation of scientists. More ⬇️ newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/07/23/ber…
The retrofit of this plane most likely won't be completed until Trump is about to leave office, at which point it becomes effectively his personal aircraft. So this is a billion dollar grift of the DOD.
Trump Is Trying to Hide the Cost of Renovating His New Air Force One The administration transferred nearly $1 billion dollars to a Pentagon project to modernize nuclear weapons, but those funds will be used to renovate Trump's "flying palace." Story: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
“Timing is very important. You need to pick hard problems to solve and be ambitious with them.” Demis Hassabis discussed how his aspirations as a young gaming programmer were ahead of their time. Watch our official interview: bit.ly/4jKV3Hh
Hard to believe this isn’t a Harkonnen submarine...
Happy birthday to @NobelPrize laureate, @GoogleDeepMind's @demishassabis. #NewHeroes @theNASEM
New Heroes: @NASA's Gene Kranz for @theNASEM. explorers.com/gene-kranz-2/ When I photographed Gene Kranz at his old console in the Mission Control Center at @NASA_Johnson in 2022, it felt like entering a time capsule. The room had been restored to the exact state it was in at 3:18…
ENDS OF THE EARTH is available now for a limited time on ebook for just $1.99. Get it while it lasts!
Few things better than a misty Pacific Ocean walk with friends. @nadinelas @DrJacinta @kevin2kelly
Neil Shubin, a University of Chicago researcher known for co-discovering a ′missing link’ fossil fish, will lead the National Academy of Sciences if ratified by members go.nature.com/40lw1HX
New from the lab! Announcing MORPHOVIEW a powerful tool to quantify in high throughput the 3D structures of cells and tissues during organ morphogenesis. Great work by Sam Norris. 🧪 anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dv…
For good reason!
We're honored to announce that The Interval at Long Now has been named the Best Cocktail Bar in San Francisco by @sanfranmag. Thank you to all of the dedicated bartenders & staff who have made The Interval into a one-of-a-kind gathering place, as well as all of our patrons.
Ingrid Bergman, captured by Gordon Parks for LIFE magazine, 1949.
Remembering the 2020 wildfires in San Francisco: christophermichel.com/Travel/The-Day…
"@witherell_lbnl never lost the perspective of a working scientist. He is the kind of leader who still lights up when discussing a clever experiment or a surprising result." - @chrismichel, photographer
New Heroes: @BerkeleyLab's Director, Dr Michael Witherell for @theNASEM. explorers.com/michael-wither… Michael Witherell stands quietly confident in front of a blackboard scrawled with equations that speak to a lifetime spent at the frontiers of physics. When I photographed him at…
New Heroes: @KarlDeisseroth for @theNASEM explorers.com/karl-deisserot…
New Heroes: @BerkeleyLab's Director, Dr Michael Witherell for @theNASEM. explorers.com/michael-wither… Michael Witherell stands quietly confident in front of a blackboard scrawled with equations that speak to a lifetime spent at the frontiers of physics. When I photographed him at…
I’m building a new team at @GoogleDeepMind to work on Open-Ended Discovery! We’re looking for strong Research Scientists and Research Engineers to help us push the frontier of autonomously discovering novel artifacts such as new knowledge, capabilities, or algorithms, in an…
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
Go @demishassabis !
Thanks @lexfridman for another super fun & wide-ranging conversation. We talked about the future of video games, the nature of reality, advancing science with AI, the path to AGI… and quite a bit more as usual! Always a blast, already looking forward to next time! 😀