Hello, and welcome to this episode of Thermonuclear Takes - our occasional bonus episodes that deal with topics in the news when there's just TOO MUCH EXCITING STUFF out there to talk about.  This episode:

• The teenager who built a nuclear fusion reactor in his bedroom - should ITER give up and go home? (Spoiler: no.) 
• A new study that suggests possible catastrophic climate feedbacks at high temperatures has been published
• OpenAI's new neural network is like nothing we've ever seen, and can imitate human writing more convincingly than I'd thought possible yet

 

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