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Adam Lee
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Climbing the Kardashev ladder: How civilization survives

The power to control ever-greater amounts of energy is a hallmark of civilization’s progress, and humanity is poised to take the next big step.

Dale McGowan
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Go easy on the weatherfolks. It's chaos out there

Weather forecasts are tangible, daily predictions of the future. But it's damn near impossible to get it right—and that's about to get much worse.

Andrew Fiala
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Could the rise of the nonreligious defuse the population bomb?

The UN estimate of Earth’s human population has flown past eight billion. Can less religion slow the explosion?

Emery Blake
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A transcendent secularism

2074: Transcendent secularism, combining reason and wonder, has transformed our relationship to the natural world.

Dale McGowan
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I want to die like a dog

Dying like a dog is the best death I can imagine.

Lisa Jarrington
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How Project 2025 threatens our secular democracy

It’s no surprise that Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, given the unpopularity of its goals. Neither is it a surprise that Trump, notoriously incurious about policy, might in fact be telling the truth when he says, "I know nothing about Project 2025"

Bruce Ledewitz
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This secular moment

No one ever said the Death of God would be easy.

Dale McGowan
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The personless apology

When it screws up, ChatGPT apologizes to me. It has the desired effect: I am defanged in the moment, willing to move on and trust again. But what is artificial remorse doing to the idea of the apology?

Jonathan MS Pearce
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This clusterf*** is bigger than you think

Enjoying a morsel of good news in one corner of the world? Snap out of it.

Adam Lee
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An urgent message from the future

I'm sure you have questions.

Dr. Eve Makoff
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The lost humanity in AI medicine

As we rush into the arms of AI medicine, will compelling research on the importance of the patient-doctor relationship be ignored?

Jonathan Kassel
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An inch to the right, 20 years later

Wishing, in the darkest corner of your heart, that the attempt had been successful? Think again.