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When we abolished borders
After a while, it was hard to remember why we'd drawn the lines to begin with.
God and the future of secularism
Does secularism have room for elements of human life traditionally associated with God?
Biophysicist: Society will 'eventually accept' designer babies
"Why wait 100,000 years for natural selection to do its job?"
How A.I. is wrecking the online experience
Our shiny new toy is solving exactly the wrong problem.
How much should we worry about asteroids?
Astronomers have found an estimated 40% of the near-Earth asteroids that are 140 m and larger. You do the math.
You think weather forecasting is bad now? Welcome to 2070
It's not just the size of the storms that future generations will deal with. It's the terrifying unpredictability.
Was I always going to write this?
It's one of the biggest and least consequential questions we can ask.
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.
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?
I want to die like a dog
Dying like a dog is the best death I can imagine.
Virtual reality church: This tech isn’t just for gaming anymore
In which today's shrinking church reaches out to virtual reality—with weird results.
AI: The newest squirrel distracting evangelicals from their own decline
Evangelicals have expressed both dread regarding AI’s popularity and power, and excitement about its potential to turn around their decades-long decline.