JWST’s “Little Red Dots,” TimeVaults, and the Dawn of Math

Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode runs from JWST’s “Little Red Dots” (and what they imply about early supermassive black holes), to a Harvard/Broad “TimeVault” method for recording gene expression over time, to 8,000-year-old Halaf pottery that may encode geometric sequences—plus a quick Cloud9 follow-up on the “starless dark-matter halo” debate.

Summary

• JWST’s Little Red Dots — Why these compact red sources don’t behave like normal galaxies or normal quasars, and how an ionized-gas cocoon model could reconcile the data.

• TimeVaults — A genetically encoded “vault” that protects RNA long enough to capture time-series biology, not just snapshots.

• Math before numbers — Halafian floral motifs that appear to follow geometric sequences (4–8–16–32–64) and what that might mean about early cognition.

• Cloud9 update — What new analysis and follow-up data would actually settle RELHIC vs. “dark galaxy.”