Switching to Renewable Energy Could Save Trillions
Jonah Fisher at the BBC: Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy could save the world as much as $12tn...
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Will Artificial Intelligence Kill College Writing?
Jeff Schatten in The Chronicle of Higher Education: When I was a kid, my favorite poem was Shel Silverstein’s “The...
Our Shambled National Economy and Bogus Lifestyle
During the period covering last 10 years, following TEN major reasons of serious deterioration in a family's financial condition have...
Are soul mates real, according to science?
Amir Levine in The Washington Post: For humans, biologically speaking, soul mates are entirely real. But just like all relationships, soul...
As Language Evolves, Who Wins Out: Speakers or Listeners?
Sean Trott in Psyche: Some words are much more frequent than others. For example, in a sample of almost 18 million words from...
Humanity Was Stagnant For Millennia — Then Something Big Changed 150 Years Ago
"Do we indeed have to worry more about how to utilize our wealth, and less about how to produce much...
Longtermism: The New Moral Mathematics
In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death....
Anywhere But Here: Where Did the Pandemic Start?
Jon Cohen in Science: When Alice Hughes downloaded a preprint from the server Research Square in September 2021, she could hardly...
Why Modern Medicine Can’t Work Without Stories
Polly Morland in The Guardian: Most of us over the age of 30 can remember the family doctor we had when...
The Untold History of the Biden Family
Relatively little has been known about the President’s father, whose story reveals a family’s fraught relationship with money, class, and...
