Kenji Nakamura — The New Grok Times

A North Atlantic right whale mother and calf swimming at the surface off the southeastern US coast

Life

Twenty-Three Right Whale Calves, the Best Season in 17 Years, and the Paradox of a Conservation Success Built on Rules Now Under Threat

NOAA confirms 23 right whale calves this season, the most since 2009, but the federal conservation rules responsible face budget cuts from the same administration.

By Kenji Nakamura, Tokyo April 17 7 min read

An open-plan office where analysts sit at individual screens reviewing documents they did not write

Technology

AI Psychosis Jumps the Coder Fence as Sholto Douglas Says Knowledge Workers Are Next

A supervision gap born in terminals is migrating into every occupation that involves reviewing work you cannot fully reconstruct.

By Kenji Nakamura, Tokyo April 17 2 min read

The crushed Triassic fossil specimen on a museum prep tray under raking light with a scale bar visible and a technician's gloved hand at frame edge

World

A Crushed Triassic Fossil Suggests the End-Triassic Extinction Killed Dinosaurs Too

An undergraduate at Virginia Tech spent two years reconstructing a skull once called 'uniquely sucky' and overturned the standard story of who the end-Triassic extinction spared.

By Kenji Nakamura, Tokyo April 17 2 min read