Category: Insight

“We’re losing the war against disinformation”

Ira Glass: The host of the influential radio program and podcast on the success of…

Google’s AI Is Smart Enough to Understand Your Humor

Imad Khan at CNET: Amid a flurry of new hardware including the Pixel 7, the…

Individual Action Can’t Solve Social Problems

by Martin Butler in 3QuarksDaily: A UK politician recently suggested that people could combat the…

CEOs are Tackling Social Issues, as Saying Nothing is No Longer an Option

“Tomorrow’s Capitalist is Socially Conscious” About a decade ago, Fortune Media CEO and journalist Alan…

To End War, We Need To Understand Its Origins, Evolution And Causes

Michael L. Wilson and Richard W. Wrangham in Monkey Business: In a recent opinion piece for Scientific American,…

Phuddoo Khata

WHATSAPP Shared: The phrase “Phuddoo Khata” refers to lawlessness, chaos, embezzlement, misappropriations and specially compromising…

How Memes Can Spread Dangerous Ideas

Internet memes are an excellent way to send powerful messages to millions of people. But…

The Rich Are Not Who We Think They Are. And Happiness Is Not What We Think It Is, Either.

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz in The New York Times: We now know who is rich in America….

How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in one stroke

Dan Goodin at Ars Technica: For more than a decade, we’ve been promised that a…

Why Europeans Colonized America Before Africa

By Tomas Pueyo in Unchartered Territories: Europe is geographically much closer to Africa than America….

Our Global Food System Was Already in Crisis. Ukraine War Will Make It Worse

The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue…

Why the Wheels of Human History Seemed to Turn Faster For Some

James Kwak in The Washington Post: Homo sapiens have big brains. We use those brains to…