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Acceleration of Change. Information Overload. Transience. Uncertainty and Anxiety. Disconnection.
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We are all future shocked.
The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic
The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic
If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden appear...
phys.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic
Why Slow Listening Is The Cure To Your Playlist Paralysis
Why Slow Listening Is The Cure To Your Playlist Paralysis - Mixcloud Blog
In this article, we share how slow listening, radio and tuning in can help you chill out and unwind in the age of choice.
www.mixcloud.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Why Slow Listening Is The Cure To Your Playlist Paralysis
Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan
Scientists Say They've Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan
The team showed that the brain scan analyzing technique could generate accurate descriptions of a video someone was watching.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan
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Schools had become deathly silent. Now that phones are banned, they're loud again.
Banning Phones in Schools Is Drastically Changing the Behavior of Kids
Schools around the world are banning phones, and the results can be unexpected. For instance, schools are getting loud again.
trib.al
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Schools had become deathly silent. Now that phones are banned, they're loud again.
"This show was made by humans."
an apt slogan for a series that is both a plea for humanity and freedom of thought.
an apt slogan for a series that is both a plea for humanity and freedom of thought.
Pluribus review: This new sci-fi from Breaking Bad's creator is 'one of 2025's smartest shows'
This series from Vince Gilligan stars Rhea Seehorn as a cynical woman living in a world where people are constantly happy. It's George Orwell meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
"This show was made by humans."
an apt slogan for a series that is both a plea for humanity and freedom of thought.
an apt slogan for a series that is both a plea for humanity and freedom of thought.
NASA supercomputer made terrifying prediction for when the world will end
NASA supercomputer made terrifying prediction for when the world will end
Researchers from NASA and Toho University in Japan have used supercomputers to find out when the Earth will end
www.ladbible.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
NASA supercomputer made terrifying prediction for when the world will end
A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness
A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness | Quanta Magazine
“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness
The Age of Enshittification
The Age of Enshittification
In a new book, the technology critic Cory Doctorow expands on a coinage that has become bleakly relevant, in Silicon Valley and beyond.
www.newyorker.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Age of Enshittification
AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs
AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA
Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.
www.bbc.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs
Our body is a mosaic of fungi. Some scientists think they could be influencing our brain
Our body is a mosaic of fungi. Some scientists think they could be influencing our brain
The fungi within our bodies may have a much greater effect on our health than we've long given them credit for.
www.bbc.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Our body is a mosaic of fungi. Some scientists think they could be influencing our brain
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Nostalgia ignores pessimism, it forgets:
The moon mission was unpopular
Novel reading was frowned upon
The Walkman was anti-social
The Bicycle 'corrupted' women
After all, why would anyone have thought the good old days were bad? newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/most-ameri...
The moon mission was unpopular
Novel reading was frowned upon
The Walkman was anti-social
The Bicycle 'corrupted' women
After all, why would anyone have thought the good old days were bad? newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/most-ameri...
Most of America Opposed the Moon Landing
July 20th, 2025 marks the 56th anniversary of the moon landing.
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
July 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Nostalgia ignores pessimism, it forgets:
The moon mission was unpopular
Novel reading was frowned upon
The Walkman was anti-social
The Bicycle 'corrupted' women
After all, why would anyone have thought the good old days were bad? newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/most-ameri...
The moon mission was unpopular
Novel reading was frowned upon
The Walkman was anti-social
The Bicycle 'corrupted' women
After all, why would anyone have thought the good old days were bad? newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/most-ameri...
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“In a world of infinite content, people will increasingly organize around curators — the ones they trust to filter the chaos and surface what matters.”
3 Human Skills That Make You Irreplaceable in an AI World
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3 Human Skills That Make You Irreplaceable in an AI World
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3 Human Skills That Make You Irreplaceable in an AI World
Jul 7, 2025
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July 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“In a world of infinite content, people will increasingly organize around curators — the ones they trust to filter the chaos and surface what matters.”
3 Human Skills That Make You Irreplaceable in an AI World
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3 Human Skills That Make You Irreplaceable in an AI World
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Unique 1.5m year-old ice to be melted to unlock mystery
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Unique ice, 1.5m years old, to be melted to unlock mystery
BBC News went inside -23C freezers to see the ice that could "revolutionise" our knowledge of climate change.
www.bbc.com
July 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Unique 1.5m year-old ice to be melted to unlock mystery
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mappa Mundi is a three-dimensional, immersive, and interactive view of the globe from a female perspective, as women make up only 0.5% of recorded history.
Mappa Mundi - LCFI
Mappa Mundi is a three-dimensional, immersive, and interactive view of the globe from a female perspective. This project has a simple but essential goal – to tell women’s stories – changing the world ...
www.lcfi.ac.uk
July 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Mappa Mundi is a three-dimensional, immersive, and interactive view of the globe from a female perspective, as women make up only 0.5% of recorded history.
Scientists Created an Evolution Engine That Works Inside Animal Cells Like a Biological AI
Scientists Created an Evolution Engine That Works Inside Animal Cells Like a Biological AI
This system accelerates evolution in living cells and it's open source.
www.zmescience.com
July 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Scientists Created an Evolution Engine That Works Inside Animal Cells Like a Biological AI
A new "eye" for robots that could revolutionize how they see. The new system, called LENS, uses a neuromorphic sensor, chip, and AI model to process visual information. Unlike traditional camera-based systems, LENS uses a tenth of the energy and is more efficient in recognizing locations.
A new ‘eye’ may radically change how robots see
The system contains a sensor, chip and tiny AI model inspired by biological eyes and brains and uses a tenth of the energy of a camera-based system.
www.sciencenews.org
July 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A new "eye" for robots that could revolutionize how they see. The new system, called LENS, uses a neuromorphic sensor, chip, and AI model to process visual information. Unlike traditional camera-based systems, LENS uses a tenth of the energy and is more efficient in recognizing locations.
How scientists are trying to use AI to unlock the human mind
How scientists are trying to use AI to unlock the human mind
Understanding the mind is hard. Understanding AI isn’t much easier.
www.technologyreview.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
How scientists are trying to use AI to unlock the human mind
The Human Exposome Project: measuring the complex exposures we face as humans and their impact on health
humanexposomeproject.com
humanexposomeproject.com
The Human Exposome Project
Bringing investigators together around the exposome to develop a new generation of scientists focused on complex environmental influences and human health.
humanexposomeproject.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The Human Exposome Project: measuring the complex exposures we face as humans and their impact on health
humanexposomeproject.com
humanexposomeproject.com
Neuromancer (in 2025)
Sunday Pages: "Neuromancer"
A novel by William Gibson
gregolear.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Neuromancer (in 2025)
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Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones
Human — Quarter Mile
Human Written by a human [0] Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion. There is...
quarter--mile.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones