191 | Jane McGonigal on How to Imagine the Future
The future grows out of the present, but it manages to consistently surprise us. How can we get better at […]
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190 | Lea Goentoro on Regrowing Limbs
Biological organisms are pretty good at healing themselves, but their abilities fall short in crucial ways. Planaria can be cut
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189 | Brian Klaas on Power and the Temptation of Corruption
All societies grant more power to some citizens, and there is always a temptation to use that power for the
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AMA | March 2022
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188 | Arik Kershenbaum on What Aliens Will Be Like
If extraterrestrial life is out there — not just microbial slime, but big, complex, macroscopic organisms — what will they
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187 | Andrew Leigh on the Politics of Looming Disasters
photo by Hilary Wardhaugh We’re pretty well-calibrated when it comes to dealing with common, everyday-level setbacks. But our brains aren’t
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186 | Sherry Turkle on How Technology Affects Our Humanity
Advances in technology have gradually been extending the human self beyond its biological extent, as we augment who we are
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185 | Arvid Ågren on the Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution
One of the brilliant achievements of Darwin’s theory of natural selection was to help explain apparently “purposeful” or “designed” aspects
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184 | Gary Marcus on Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense
Artificial intelligence is everywhere around us. Deep-learning algorithms are used to classify images, suggest songs to us, and even to
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AMA | February 2022
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