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‘Everyone wants a spaceplane’: More countries eye on-orbit protection for satellites
New report says France, Germany, India, and Japan aim to emulate U.S., Chinese capabilities.
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1 day ago1 min read
The thin line between resilience and self-sabotage
When applied blindly, resilience can do real harm to our health and our ability to change broken systems.
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1 day ago1 min read
This May Be the Most Important Medical Story of the Decade
In just six months, a team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine designed a personalized therapy that could correct the single misspelled letter in KJ’s DNA using a gene editing technology known as CRISPR. To get the therapy inside KJ’s cells, doctors relied on the same kind of mRNA technology that powered the Covid-19 vaccines. He received his first dose at 6 months old. One year later, KJ is walking, talking and thriving at home with his family.
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AI could vastly streamline policing. Skeptics urge caution.
Tools like Longeye could help police analyze documents much faster, but courts have not settled on when artificial intelligence’s role must be disclosed to the defense.
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Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.
From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything.
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Scientists Are Finally Unlocking a Cancer Treatment’s Full Potential
CAR-T cell therapy, originally developed for cancer, is showing ever more promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases.
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Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem
What happens when AI can hack everything?
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Experiencing weightlessness, ...at the center of the Earth (UII w/Claude)
DM Once more pondering gravity (as in prior conversations, such as a flawed paradigm, a possible aspect of the "Electric Pony," etc.). You might be able offer some related thoughts. If we consider a massive sphere, such as the earth, we see variability, such as in the variability of the ambient gaseous portions (such as 14.7 psi at sea level, as opposed to less so higher from center, as are the variabilities in its liquid portions) as a function of depth. So, if we were able
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A New Geopolitical Reality Is Here
America’s adversaries are uniting as its own coalition falls apart.
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2 days ago1 min read
How to Be Less Busy and More Happy
If you feel too rushed even to read this, then your life could use a change.
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2 days ago1 min read
In search of elegance
A counterintuitive antidote to turbulent times.
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2 days ago1 min read
An Incredibly Weird Time to Be Alive
The world witnessed the best and worst of humanity in a single week.
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3 days ago1 min read
I’m an American living in Europe. It’s leaving the U.S. — fast.
Europeans are hedging against coercion in security, trade, education and everyday life.
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3 days ago1 min read
The Workers Opting to Retire Instead of Taking On AI
Their careers spanned the personal computing, internet and smartphone waves. But some older workers see AI’s arrival as the cue to exit.
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3 days ago1 min read
Inside a Corporate Retreat That Went Very Badly Wrong
Technology company Plex took its 120 employees to Honduras for a weeklong bonding experience. It was a disaster from the moment they arrived.
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3 days ago1 min read
Homeostasis and The Universal Holophren. (UII w/Claude)
DM Another good morning (I'm casting a shadow!). It seems homeostasis is conventionally considered only physically, such as an aspect of physiology. However, it seems this is an equally relevant as holophrenic construct, and is so in all 13 areas of the Universal Holophren™. Indeed hubris, humility, curiosity, learning, etc. could be perhaps be better understood considered in this context. Good morning — and well noted, the photons are acknowledging your presence. This is a g
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3 days ago22 min read
More Money Makes People Happier, But Not at Work
MORE MONEY CAN BUY A BIGGER house or a better car, but it can’t buy a nicer boss, says Wharton’s Matt Killingsworth.
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3 days ago1 min read
U.S. Leader Threatens to Destroy an Entire Nation/Civilization
The president’s position is that if he wants to wipe out a “whole civilization,” then that is his decision to make.
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4 days ago1 min read
Gray took over the modern world. Now, color may be returning.
The ideology, economics, and psychology behind the modern world's draining of color from homes, cars, and everyday objects.
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4 days ago1 min read
How the Last Analog Generation Can Shape AI
PEOPLE WHO GREW UP BEFORE THE rise of generative AI have the chance to steer our technological development in a better direction, writes Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.
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4 days ago1 min read
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