Category: Lifestyle

Can the Brain Help Heal a Broken Heart?

This work could also help researchers understand the mechanisms that link psychological factors with physical health.

How to Stop the Future from Destroying Us

Nuclear war. Resource wars. Climate wars. AI wars. Wars in outer space. We’ve got our hands full. But maybe here’s a way through it.

Global Mobility, Bordered Realities, and Ethnocultural Contact Zones

Borders no longer are mere fixed invisible divisions set under geopolitical rationales whose main objective is defining national territorialities.

Words of Albert Camus

Patti Smith at her own Substack: Recently I was in San Francisco and did a…

Ted Nordhaus: Environmentalism is Antithetical to Abundance

Stopping the planet from warming requires that we stop emitting carbon dioxide entirely,; that means that to effectively mitigate climate change, you have to build an entirely new energy economy.

Why America Fell For Guns

The US today has extraordinary levels of gun ownership. But to see this as a venerable tradition is to misread history.

The Surprising Cause of Fasting’s Regenerative Powers

Post-fast feasting helps to activate stem cells in the gut but can also prompt development of precancerous growths, mouse research shows.

The Computational Power of Complex Societies: A Quick Q&A With Physicist and Computer Scientist David Wolpert

The formula for humanity’s evolution is one of better energy harvesting + improved information processing = greater complexity.

Can Plastic Waste Be Transformed Into Food For Humans?

Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source?

Dan Go: 6 Powerful Exercises I’m Doing to Slow Down the Aging Process

by Dan Go at The High Performance Journal: At the time of writing this, I’m…

Capitalism, Mass Anger and the 2024 Elections

Western capitalism is no longer the world’s colonial master. The American empire that succeeded the European empires has now followed them into decline.

United States of Algorithms: The Case For Artificially Intelligent Government

Danny Crichton in City Journal: Digital quantification determines Americans’ quality of life. Algorithms select job…