Fred Rogers Spoke Softly to the Senate and Changed Its Mind
In 1969, the U.S. Senate was considering cutting funding for public broadcasting from 20 million dollars to 10 million.
AI Isn’t the Villain: 50 Ways It’s Quietly Saving Lives, Cracking Cold Cases, and Changing the World
My mom thinks AI is going to take over the world. A guy I met last month told me it's "the devil's invention." I get it.
Five Problems the World Actually Solved, and Then Stopped Talking About
A disease that infected 3.5 million people a year is down to ten cases. Lead is out of gasoline everywhere on earth. The ozone hole is closing early. Five problems everyone called permanent, and the four things all of them...
Four Things Your Brain Gets Wrong About You, and Why Every One Is Good News
Four replicated psychology studies, tens of thousands of participants, and one pattern nobody talks about: every mistake your brain makes about you points in the same direction, and it is not in your favor.
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