The Downsides of Rehashing Problems With Friends
by Shayla Love at Psyche: It’s Friday night. You’re sitting down to dinner with your…
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…
Saturday Poem: ‘At the End’ by Maaz Bin Bilal
How can one ever begin at the end?—Death is regeneration at the end Waiz lives…
From Nobel Peace Prize to Civil War: How Ethiopia’s Leader Beguiled the World
Tom Gardner in The Guardian: ‘I’m sorry, I don’t know anything about Abiy Ahmed.” The…
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…
The Hunt for the Man Behind the World’s Most Popular 3D-printed Gun
Gemma Ware at The Conversation: 3D-printed guns are appearing the world over, including in the…
Ray Dalio: The Coming Great Conflict
“From studying 50-plus civil wars and revolutions, it became clear that the single most reliable…
Jazz Remains the Sound of Modernism
Ed Simon at The Millions: There are two irrefutable axioms that can be made about…
The Promise of Precision Agriculture Is Slowly Coming to Fruition
Eric Schmid at Undark: For 20 years, Pablo Sobron sought a better way to learn…
I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
Marisa Wright at The Millions: In Glynnis MacNicol’s second memoir, I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself, pleasure…
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…