Category: Insight
Why is Chile So Long?
by Tomas Pueyo at Uncharted Territories: Chile is so long, it’s curved. How long is…
Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future
Sveta McShane in Singularity Hub: Over the last several decades, the digital revolution has changed nearly…
Across a Continent, Trees Sync Their Fruiting to the Sun
Meghan Willcoxon at Quanta: Each summer, like clockwork, millions of beech trees throughout Europe sync…
Ray Dalio: The Coming Great Conflict
“From studying 50-plus civil wars and revolutions, it became clear that the single most reliable…
The Strategy Behind One of the Most Successful Labs in the World
Luke Gebel et al in Nature: The Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in…
Researchers Say Chatbots ‘Policing’ Each Other Can Correct Some AI Hallucinations
by Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: This week, a new study in Nature offers an…
Can You Inherit Memories From Your Ancestors?
Hannah Critchlow in The Guardian: Since the sequencing of the human genome in 2003, genetics has…
Plants Warn, Defend, Scream, Remember, and Plan Ahead
Jeannette Cooperman in The Common Reader: Tempted as I am to lavish consciousness on everything around…
Talking Points: ‘Why Pakistan’s Economy Keeps Collapsing’
Irshad Salim, Karachi: My take on the vlog shared by a member at the Back2School…
Astronomers May Have Found Life Beyond Earth
By Peter Savodnik at The Free Press: We will soon know a little more thanks…
Why Moral Progress Feels Annoying
Daniel Kelly at Aeon: It’s not that you don’t care about animal suffering. In other…
The Enduring Mystery of How Water Freezes
Elise Cutts at Quanta: We learn in grade school that water freezes at zero degrees…