Samir Varma
@samirvarma.bsky.social
Physicist, author, inventor, hedge fund manager, green tech pioneer. Beatles & Pink Floyd fan. I love AI, physics, science, markets, economics, squash, guitar.
When did Argentina lose its way? - Marginal REVOLUTION marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
When did Argentina lose its way? - Marginal REVOLUTION
From a new paper by Ariel Coremberg and Emilio Ocampo: This paper challenges the increasingly popular view that Argentina’s economy performed relatively well under the corporatist import substitution…
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January 20, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Why your "normal" risk management is likely hurting your trading/investing: open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
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January 19, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Why your "normal" risk management is likely hurting your trading/investing: open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
What Can Hundreds of Pieces of Litter Tell Us About Manhattan? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/n...
What Can Hundreds of Pieces of Litter Tell Us About Manhattan?
Shoes. A phone. Receipts. A comb. Traces of wild nights and hurried days are all around us.
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January 18, 2026 at 3:03 PM
What Can Hundreds of Pieces of Litter Tell Us About Manhattan? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/n...
How Well Does Apple’s Live Translation Work for Japanese? I Tested It in Tokyo. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
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January 17, 2026 at 3:03 PM
How Well Does Apple’s Live Translation Work for Japanese? I Tested It in Tokyo. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
From foot to head: How Chinese doctors kept a severed ear alive; reattached it months later - The Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/from...
From foot to head: How Chinese doctors kept a severed ear alive; reattached it months later - The Times of India
Science News: Doctors in China have grafted a woman’s torn-off ear onto her foot to keep it alive, before later reattaching it to her head.The woman lost her ear in.
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January 16, 2026 at 3:03 PM
From foot to head: How Chinese doctors kept a severed ear alive; reattached it months later - The Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/from...
Not as good as Cowen-Tabarrok - Marginal REVOLUTION marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Not as good as Cowen-Tabarrok - Marginal REVOLUTION
Russia is preparing a new economics textbook for university students that aims to challenge what its authors call a “myth” that democracy drives economic growth and to revive the socialist economic…
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January 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Not as good as Cowen-Tabarrok - Marginal REVOLUTION marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
The universe may be lopsided, new research suggests phys.org/news/2025-12...
The universe may be lopsided, new research suggests
The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. My colleagues and I have published a new study that suggests it could be asymmetric or lopsided, meaning not the same in every…
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January 15, 2026 at 3:03 PM
The universe may be lopsided, new research suggests phys.org/news/2025-12...
More than 16,000 dinosaur tracks discovered at a site in Bolivia phys.org/news/2025-12...
More than 16,000 dinosaur tracks discovered at a site in Bolivia
Scientists have discovered the single largest dinosaur track site in the world in Carreras Pampa, Torotoro National Park, Bolivia. The tracks were made about 70 million years ago, in the late…
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January 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
More than 16,000 dinosaur tracks discovered at a site in Bolivia phys.org/news/2025-12...
China’s ‘Are You Dead?’ app checks in on growing cohort of people living alone www.ft.com/content/e92d...
China’s ‘Are You Dead?’ app checks in on growing cohort of people living alone
Popularity among Chinese Apple users highlights concerns created by rapidly changing demographics
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January 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM
China’s ‘Are You Dead?’ app checks in on growing cohort of people living alone www.ft.com/content/e92d...
Yes, I very much agree! India was heavily influenced by the totally idiotic Soviet 5 year plans.
January 13, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Yes, I very much agree! India was heavily influenced by the totally idiotic Soviet 5 year plans.
Suppose you take a classic quantum double slit experiment and place it in a gravitational field (like the earth or near a Black Hole). What happens? My new post on Substack explains our new paper on this topic: open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
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January 12, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Suppose you take a classic quantum double slit experiment and place it in a gravitational field (like the earth or near a Black Hole). What happens? My new post on Substack explains our new paper on this topic: open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
Supernova from the dawn of the universe captured by James Webb Space Telescope phys.org/news/2025-12...
Supernova from the dawn of the universe captured by James Webb Space Telescope
An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), detecting a supernova—the explosive death of a massive star—at an…
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January 11, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Supernova from the dawn of the universe captured by James Webb Space Telescope phys.org/news/2025-12...
A hidden Arctic world: Methane mounds and life found 3.6 km below the Greenland Sea | - The Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/a-hi...
A hidden Arctic world: Methane mounds and life found 3.6 km below the Greenland Sea | - The Times of India
Science News: Deep down, beneath the icy edges of the Greenland Sea, a remarkable and previously undiscovered geological and biological complex has been found by sc.
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January 10, 2026 at 3:01 PM
A hidden Arctic world: Methane mounds and life found 3.6 km below the Greenland Sea | - The Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/a-hi...
Marginal Returns to Public Universities - Marginal REVOLUTION marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Marginal Returns to Public Universities - Marginal REVOLUTION
From Jack Mountjoy, forthcoming in the QJE: This paper studies the returns to enrolling in American public universities by comparing the long-term outcomes of barely admitted versus barely rejected…
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January 9, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Marginal Returns to Public Universities - Marginal REVOLUTION marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Why mosquitoes bite you more: The surprising science behind being a 'mosquito magnet' | - The Times of India buff.ly/v1FAxOP
Why mosquitoes bite you more: The surprising science behind being a 'mosquito magnet' | - The Times of India
Science News: Discover the fascinating science behind why mosquitoes prefer certain individuals over others. Learn about the role of carbon dioxide, body heat, clothing, and blood type in attracting…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered • The Register www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/u...
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered
: Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works
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January 7, 2026 at 3:03 PM
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered • The Register www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/u...
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Scientists find a way to 'reboot' vision in adults with lazy eye
When one eye is deprived of vision early in life, it can lead to amblyopia, a condition more commonly known as lazy eye. This happens because a lack of input disrupts synapse formation in the brain's…
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January 6, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Part 3 of 3 about the 3 forgotten people responsible for lifting 600 million people out of poverty! open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
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January 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Part 3 of 3 about the 3 forgotten people responsible for lifting 600 million people out of poverty! open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
A third path to explain consciousness: Biological computationalism phys.org/news/2025-12...
A third path to explain consciousness: Biological computationalism
Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain…
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January 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A third path to explain consciousness: Biological computationalism phys.org/news/2025-12...
Two ancient human species came out of Africa together, not one, suggests new study phys.org/news/2025-12...
Two ancient human species came out of Africa together, not one, suggests new study
The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 million years ago was Homo erectus. But in recent years, a debate has…
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January 3, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Two ancient human species came out of Africa together, not one, suggests new study phys.org/news/2025-12...
How a gourmet's palate becomes refined: Taste training mechanisms medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12...
How a gourmet's palate becomes refined: Taste training mechanisms
Why are gourmets seemingly able to detect subtle nuances in taste that others miss? Researchers at Tohoku University have uncovered part of the answer by demonstrating that taste sensitivity can be…
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January 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM
How a gourmet's palate becomes refined: Taste training mechanisms medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12...
'70s Rock Album Returns to No. 1 After 50 Years buff.ly/LgXxOV5
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January 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Rent Control Creates Ghost Apartments - Marginal REVOLUTION marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Rent Control Creates Ghost Apartments - Marginal REVOLUTION
Adam Lehodey writing at City Journal: In New York City, making a profit on real estate has become increasingly difficult. Rent-stabilization laws built on the mantra that “housing is a human right,”…
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December 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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She Was Discovered on the Subway. Then She Walked a Chanel Runway. buff.ly/5XiYoHx
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December 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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I had great fun talking to @worldxppodcast and @tedschwartz13 about the nature of free will. Here are the Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... and Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6uUS... links.
Samir Varma and Dr. Ted Schwartz - Free Will Can Be Scientifically Disproven, Life Is A Miracle
Podcast Episode · World XP Podcast · 12/29/2025 · 1h 44m
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December 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I had great fun talking to @worldxppodcast and @tedschwartz13 about the nature of free will. Here are the Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... and Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6uUS... links.