Overmatter
Natasha LoderWhere medicine, politics and tech collide
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Zen and the art of Michael Levin: can AIs help us decode the minds of geniuses?
AI generated: ‘motorcycle made of cucumbers”
This morning I read an extraordinary, fascinating and slightly infuriating profile of the biologist Michael Levin in New York magazine, titled “What Is It Like to Be a Cucumber?”. Levin’s mind i...
In Brief #3: BPC-157 and the rise of vibes-based medicine
An FDA advisory committee has voted to recommend wider access to BPC-157, the peptide beloved of “folk pharmacologists” everywhere. So what exactly is it, and what research convinced the panel that it should be more widely available?
BPC-1...
The obesity epidemic has peaked in rich countries. But not for the reasons you think.
Obesity is falling—in a few countries at least. And it is nothing to do with weight-loss drugs. What is going on? For decades governments have wrung their hands as obesity has risen relentlessly. All sorts of policies were tried: taxes, lab...
Largest ebola outbreak Congo has ever seen
Update — 4 August (AI summary, edited)
Where it stands (as of 2 August 2026):
- This is now the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded in Congo — surpassing the 2018–20 Kivu epidemic. WHO also flags that the last complete reporting week s...
Fear and doping in Las Vegas-inside the Enhanced Games
ABU DHABI, LAS VEGAS
When I first heard about the Enhanced Games back in 2024 my reaction was that it was a tremendously stupid idea. Over time, after listening to the arguments, it seemed less so. The idea of running a trial of performanc...
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