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The diligence and delight of debate
You may be familiar with the concept of debate team from watching TV and movies – a group of eager kids who are willing to spend time outside of school researching issues and arguing their points. But these are also spaces in which kids are learning to find their voices. And where adults have to listen to what they have to say.
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Mar 201 min read
The companies that win with AI may not look like companies at all
The question is no longer how artificial intelligence affects jobs. It’s how AI affects the very architecture of businesses.
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Mar 201 min read
The New Infidelity
Micro-cheating includes all sorts of internet behavior that, to many people, might just seem innocent.
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Mar 201 min read
US intelligence elevates AI as a top global threat in new report
Annual assessment of Office of the Director of National Intelligence notes AI's use in combat, economic competitiveness—but skips disinformation.
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Mar 191 min read
"White Identity" Is Galvanizing the U.S. Political Right
He wrote a book on anti-white bias. The White House noticed.
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Mar 191 min read
Are They Still Your Friends if You Never See Them?
The friendship crisis of America men
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Mar 191 min read
Maybe Turning War Into a Casino Was a Bad Idea?
A disturbing new low in the Polymarket era
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Mar 181 min read
The key problem with the “brain in a vat” thought experiment
Even with the best technology imaginable, you'd probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.
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Mar 181 min read
The Dangerous Logic of the Joe Kent Letter
The conspiracist anti-war activist completely misunderstood the movement and the president he served.
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Mar 181 min read
Trashing American Allies Turns Out to Be Bad for National Security
How “America First” became “America Alone” Related
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Mar 181 min read
Richard Feynman Warned Einstein About Reality
Nobody Believed Until the Experiment
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Mar 181 min read
Is Electricity Instant?
A Shocking Experiment from 1746
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Mar 181 min read
Portland has a wonky secret to building cheaper houses. Other cities are copying.
Portland legalized fourplexes, tiny houses and backyard homes and then sorted out how to actually get them built.
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Mar 181 min read
Maximize Your Utility: Career, Family, and Time Strategies
THIS WHARTON NANO TOOL OFFERS practical steps for making more intentional choices during your most time-squeezed years.
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Mar 181 min read
Battling the bots
In his new book, Futureproof , Kevin Roose provides useful advice for humans on life amid rampant automation.
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Mar 171 min read
How did Taiwan implement one of the most successful industrial policy programs of all time?
TSMC (and most of Taiwan’s chip industry) spun out of one government research institute. How did ITRI implement one of the most successful industrial policy programs of all time?
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Mar 161 min read
See which jobs are most threatened by AI and who may be able to adapt
It’s the most urgent question about artificial intelligence — and one of the hardest to answer.
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Mar 161 min read
Disgust. Charisma. Feeling invisible? Smarter than you think?
Check out the latest episodes of Hidden Brain
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Mar 161 min read
I’ve seen several types of warfare. Drones usher in the worst.
Drones are erasing any sense of safety, and Iran is only a warmup.
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Mar 161 min read
Can we learn from Great Britain's history?
Fareed's thoughts on why we continue our Middle East hubris Related Also Related
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Mar 161 min read
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