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The Last Days Of Social Media
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
by James O’Sullivan
A Third Path For AI Beyond The US-China Binary
What if the future of AI isn’t defined by Washington or Beijing, but by improvisation elsewhere?
by Dang Nguyen
Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet)
To understand life, we must stop treating organisms like machines and minds like code.
by Adam Frank
The Unseen Fury Of Solar Storms
Lurking in every space weather forecaster’s mind is the hypothetical big one, a solar storm so huge it could bring our networked, planetary civilization to its knees.
by Henry Wismayer
From Statecraft To Soulcraft
How the world’s illiberal powers like Russia, China and increasingly the U.S. rule through their visions of the good life.
by Alexandre Lefebvre
The Languages Lost To Climate Change
Climate catastrophes and biodiversity loss are endangering languages across the globe.
by Julia Webster Ayuso
The Shrouded, Sinister History Of The Bulldozer
From India to the Amazon to Israel, bulldozers have left a path of destruction that offers a cautionary tale for how technology without safeguards can be misused.
by Joe Zadeh
The Moral Authority Of Animals
For millennia before we showed up on the scene, social animals — those living in societies and cooperating for survival — had been creating cultures imbued with ethics.
by Jay Griffiths
Welcome To The New Warring States
Today’s global turbulence has echoes in Chinese history.
by Hui Huang
Signs Of Life In A Desert Of Death
In the dry and fiery deserts of Central Asia, among the mythical sites of both the first human and the end of all days, I found evidence that life restores itself even on the bleakest edge of ecological apocalypse.
