What is Low Impact Fruit?

Low Impact Fruit is an online magazine for the expression of ideas that are somewhere between a post on social media and a scientific publication. We publish opinion articles, articles about technology and its overlap with culture, academia, life, scientific analysis articles, history of science and technology, and articles on managing technical people. This list of topics is non-exhaustive and set to expand. Low Impact Fruit will always be free but your paid subscriptions help us organize and publicize the magazine.

About low impact fruit

John M. Aiken, Editor-in-Chief. John is a physicist turned machine learning researcher and geoscientist who builds bridges between science, technology, and storytelling. His work has spanned discovering free hydrogen gas deep beneath Oman’s surface, make more equitable assessments of minority students than traditional statistics, to developing AI-based tools that help scientists uncover new projects and patterns in their own data. As Editor-in-Chief of Low Impact Fruit, John curates ideas at the intersection of science and creativity, giving researchers and technologists a lower-friction path to an audience.

Contributing authors have contributed at least one article to low impact fruit.

Dunyu Liu, Contributing Author. is a senior computational geoscientist at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin. More on his research interests can be found here.
User's avatar

Subscribe to Low Impact Fruit

Low Impact Fruit is a periodical about science, technology, academia, culture and other topics.

People