Archive - The Egg And The Rock

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Why I haven't posted recently, and what I'm going to do about that (including suspending paid subscriptions for a month)

Mar 10

February 2023

A short riff from my notes

Feb 21

A little extra something for the weekend: for the first time in years, you can read the story that persuaded Markus (Notch) Persson that I was "the…

Feb 3

January 2023

My feedback on your feedback on my introduction to the book.

Jan 23

The Egg and the Rock is a Substack that is slowly turning into a book. This is how the book begins...

Jan 11

December 2022

This was meant to be a suggestion for your Christmas present list, but it's landing a little late. Oh well. Still a delightful book!

Dec 20, 2022

In which I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft… and give it to you.

Dec 7, 2022

November 2022

Yes, those potentially extremely early galaxies that the James Webb Space Telescope spotted back in July are, indeed, extremely early galaxies – plum…

Nov 18, 2022

October 2022

With a long introduction by me, explaining why I like this guest post so much

and

Lawrence Rifkin

Oct 5, 2022

August 2022

A quick guide to all the Egg and the Rock posts so far

Aug 23, 2022

July 2022

More evidence for very early galaxy formation, and there's lots of water in the atmosphere of a marvellously extreme exoplanet

Jul 26, 2022

Where, when, and why I think the universe will be full of life

Jul 11, 2022

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