Search
A dialogue with Angus Fletcher — author of the bestseller "Primal Intelligence" — exploring the unique engines of human progress.
Going back to 1990, we hadn't even found one planet outside of our Solar System. As we close in on 6000, we now see many of them directly.
In "Raising AI," De Kai argues that today's AIs are already more like us than we think they are.
The most famous Hubble images show glittering stars and galaxies amidst the black backdrop of space. But more was captured than we realized.
Forget billions and billions. When it comes to the number of galaxies in the Universe, both theorists' and observers' estimates are too low.
Modern autocracies operate "not like a bloc but rather like an agglomeration of companies," says journalist and historian Anne Applebaum.
CERN's Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. To go even further, we'll have to overcome something big.
8mins
James Suzman lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.
We don’t need to think about what life is made of but rather what it does.
Man does not live by measurement alone.
John Templeton Foundation
Its implications go well beyond the Earth itself, affecting even the future of space travel.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher who praised a simple life and inspired the worst of the French Revolution.
The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.
The gospels imply that Jesus became famous as much for his exorcisms as his ministry.
The Universe’s idea of a ‘typical star’ has changed dramatically over time. When you look out at the Universe today, you’re not seeing it exactly as it is at one particular […]
Monuments are under attack in America. How far should we go in re-examining our history?
To create wiser adults, add empathy to the school curriculum.
Charles Koch Foundation
If a crisis like this only comes once in a hundred years, so does this opportunity.
Charles Koch Foundation
The closest star to our own doesn’t just host one rocky planet, but a second, larger ‘super-Earth’ much farther out. Of all the stars in the Universe, the closest one to […]
The dream of space travel has been usurped by superficiality.
Eric Weinstein says that we need to rethink the current scientific model to allow for more dreaming.
If AIs can generate photos of people who don't exist, what else can they imagine?
A balanced discussion of the realities, the mythologies, and the concerns surrounding cutting-edge brain research.
The famous astrophysicist argues why Elon Musk is more important than Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.
His book warns us of the dangers of mass media, passivity, and how even an intelligent population can be driven to gladly choose dictatorship over freedom.
Google’s homepage doodle for today, June 22, honors the memory of renowned science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. It would have been her 71st birthday.
The solar neighborhood is so different than people imagine. But for the first time, we know what it’s like. When you look up at the stars in the night sky, they […]
Elastic thinking is what endows us with the ability to solve novel problems and to overcome the neural and psychological barriers that can impede us from looking beyond the existing order.
Wild boars in the sewers of London. Augmented humans of the future. Jason's high school friend, celebrated children's author Jacob Sager Weinstein, on imaginary histories and possible futures.
The event brought scholars and comedians together to take a look at what’s funny and why.