An intelligent extraterrestrial alien relaxes after sending out highly directional signals to his galaxy. Credit: Jim Cooper from Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/ai-generated-alien-planets-sci-fi-8974671/ We're focusing on space news this week, but we did cover the usual amount of local news down here in Earth's gravity well: A new Tokamak reactor regime sustained stable plasma fusion for one full minute . An anomaly in global sea level rise turns out to be due to deep ocean heating. And Chinese researchers report that they found microplastics in every part of both healthy and diseased human brains . Troubling! So let's talk about space-adjacent research: The speed of memes One of the unexpected convergences in science was the realization that information theory closely tracks with the laws of thermodynamics—or that they're basically describing the same set of phenomena.…
