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Journalist and author of the newsletter The Third Hemisphere. Neuroscience prof, NYU. Proud user of the em dash since the 90s

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Tim Requarth is a freelance science journalist, as well as Lecturer in Science & Writing at New York University. His writing has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Nation, The New Republic, Slate, Foreign Policy, and Scientific American. He received his PhD in neuroscience from Columbia University, and for nine years he directed NeuWrite, an international network of workshops for scientists and writers. He was a 2018 UC Berkeley-11th Hour Food & Farming Journalism Fellow.

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Leaked Documents Say Roughly 2,000 NY Prisoners Affected By Erroneous Drug Tests

Leaked Documents Say Roughly 2,000 NY Prisoners Affected By Erroneous Drug Tests

New York state corrections officials believe that approximately 2,000 prisoners were subject to a flawed drug…

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The Final Five Percent

The Final Five Percent

If traumatic brain injuries can impact the parts of the brain responsible for personality, judgment, and impu…

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Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things. It Won't.

Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things. It Won't.

If you consider yourself to have even a passing familiarity with science, you likely find yourself in a state…

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How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits

How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits

When the Bellamy Creek correctional facility's longtime kitchen officer decided to leave in 2014, David Angel…

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Forensic Science Put Jimmy Genrich in Prison for 24 Years. What if It Wasn't Science?

Forensic Science Put Jimmy Genrich in Prison for 24 Years. What if It Wasn't Science?

The first bomb didn't kill anyone. It was planted in the ground-floor parking lot beneath the Two Rivers Conv…

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A California Court for Young Adults Calls on Science

A California Court for Young Adults Calls on Science

SAN FRANCISCO - On a cloudy afternoon in the Bayview district, Shaquille, 21, was riding in his sister's 1991…

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The Third Hemisphere: Silicon Valley’s Mythology of Human Amplification

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By YearBy Year, Tim Requarth
| National Education Policy Center (NEPC)
Share Share on Bluesky Why is Facebook not here? Why is Twitter not here? Share on LinkedIn Permalink Email May 21, 2026 Third Hemisphere art by noted human Matteo Farinella Welcome to The Third Hemisphere, where I try to make sense of how AI is reshaping work, thinking, and creativity, often by watching my own assumptions get upended. Today’s essay started with an argument I couldn’t win. A friend asked me what’s actually wrong with using Google Maps anyway, instead of a paper map.
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What the Inuit Know and AI Doesn’t

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By Tim Requarth
| Persuasion
Tomorrow at 6pm ET, we will host a book club with Freya India discussing her book GIRLS: Gen Z and the Commodification of Everything. Please join us on Substack Live—and click here to add it to your calendar! Inuit hunter with sled, Greenland, 2024. (Photo by Olivier Morin/AFP.) In 1981, a young Steve Jobs—bearded, bespectacled, brown corduroy blazer over an open-collared shirt—sat in front of an Apple II and explained what he thought a personal computer was for.
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The next unit of science: Is the scientific paper due to be replaced?

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By Tim Requarth
| The Transmitter Verified
Before the scientific paper, there was the treatise. In “Astronomia Nova,” Johannes Kepler bundled 10 years of astronomical observations, along with false starts, methodological disagreements and philosophical justifications, into a book-length masterpiece. Isaac Newton’s “Principia,” though written in a burst of roughly two years, unified ideas he had been developing since the 1660s.
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