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Look up or don’t look up: We probably won’t see the one that gets us
Tick tick, y'all.
Is the sun setting on solitary confinement?
If our system of punishment continues to revolve around deprivation, the future will always include some version of a dark hole in the ground.
The disorienting weirdness of GPT's hallucinations
We just aren't wired to grok this kind of interaction.
For the Trump faithful, it comes down to plot armor
It's no surprise that Trump benefits from a feature you've seen on bad television.
Another demographic time bomb goes off for evangelicals
The future of evangelical Christianity is looking exceedingly grim.
Solarpunk humanism: How we dream bigger than despair
Solarpunk offers a potent narrative space for imagining secular worlds to come, and how to get there.
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.