How to Live on the Precipice of Tomorrow
[ad_1] We are being pitched futures all the time. Every advertisement, every political campaign, every quarterly budget is a promise or a threat about what tomorrow could look like. And…
The Case Against Hopewashing | WIRED
[ad_1] Did you imagine the thing being better? You probably did. This was the main experiment in the studies conducted by Adam Mastroianni, a postdoc at Columbia Business School and author…
You Don’t Need to Fear a World of Eight Billion Humans
[ad_1] On November 15, the 8 billionth person on the planet was born. Well, more or less. That was the date selected by United Nations demographers as the moment the world…
Three Possible Futures of the Monkeypox Epidemic
[ad_1] Still, that path is made messier by doing nothing for the countries in West and Central Africa, where monkeypox was first identified decades ago and has been spreading since…
The Secret to Being Lucky
[ad_1] In Aeon magazine, Hales wrote, “Luck might not be a genuine quality of the world at all.” Fine. But neither is beauty or justice. At the same time, the…