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“The integration of AI into education is no longer hypothetical — it is well underway.”
Let’s use it to shape students for the better, Greg Easley argues.
Let’s use it to shape students for the better, Greg Easley argues.
Reimagining School In The Age Of AI | NOEMA
With thoughtful design, AI systems could move American classrooms beyond rigid curricula toward adaptive programs that respond to individual learners.
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February 9, 2026 at 5:02 PM
“The integration of AI into education is no longer hypothetical — it is well underway.”
Let’s use it to shape students for the better, Greg Easley argues.
Let’s use it to shape students for the better, Greg Easley argues.
“Instead of offering easy answers, thinking historically provides the intellectual equipment to engage with hard questions, a skill indispensable for navigating a future that will surely be as unpredictable as the past.”
—Francis Gavin
—Francis Gavin
The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically | NOEMA
To understand the world today, we must see it as actors of the past did: through a foggy windshield, not a rearview mirror, facing a future of radical uncertainty.
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February 8, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“Instead of offering easy answers, thinking historically provides the intellectual equipment to engage with hard questions, a skill indispensable for navigating a future that will surely be as unpredictable as the past.”
—Francis Gavin
—Francis Gavin
What do computer science, quantum physics & Hindu tradition have in common?
It’s more than you might think, Swami Sarvapriyananda, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Carlo Rovelli write.
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It’s more than you might think, Swami Sarvapriyananda, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Carlo Rovelli write.
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Consciousness Across Three Worldviews | NOEMA
Central concepts in three different domains — Hindu tradition, computer science and quantum physics — find analogies and reflect one another.
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February 7, 2026 at 5:30 PM
What do computer science, quantum physics & Hindu tradition have in common?
It’s more than you might think, Swami Sarvapriyananda, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Carlo Rovelli write.
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It’s more than you might think, Swami Sarvapriyananda, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Carlo Rovelli write.
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“When inequality is too vast to last, it doesn’t. The skyrocketing valuations of Big Tech & the staggering concentration of wealth accruing to its titans only presage a revolt against the depredations of disparity.”
—Nathan Gardels
#inequality #wealthgap
—Nathan Gardels
#inequality #wealthgap
Extreme Inequality Presages The Revolt Against It | NOEMA
Even the Davos elites are reading the tea leaves.
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February 6, 2026 at 6:26 PM
“When inequality is too vast to last, it doesn’t. The skyrocketing valuations of Big Tech & the staggering concentration of wealth accruing to its titans only presage a revolt against the depredations of disparity.”
—Nathan Gardels
#inequality #wealthgap
—Nathan Gardels
#inequality #wealthgap
“Exposure to nature can lower our blood pressure, slash the risk of diabetes, improve our mental health & treat ADHD in a way that’s similar to a dose of Ritalin,” @olliemilman.bsky.social writes.
What could it do on a larger scale for society as a whole?
#nature #society #wellness
What could it do on a larger scale for society as a whole?
#nature #society #wellness
Society Needs A Doctor’s Prescription For Nature | NOEMA
Long treated as a backdrop to human life, the trees, babbling streams and rolling hills of the natural world could actually help repair society’s fraying social fabric.
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February 5, 2026 at 6:26 PM
“Exposure to nature can lower our blood pressure, slash the risk of diabetes, improve our mental health & treat ADHD in a way that’s similar to a dose of Ritalin,” @olliemilman.bsky.social writes.
What could it do on a larger scale for society as a whole?
#nature #society #wellness
What could it do on a larger scale for society as a whole?
#nature #society #wellness
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My latest on Existential Politics and climate change in @noemamag.com. Climate policy should focus on dollars, not tons of emissions!
It’s Time To Target The Political Power Of Polluters | NOEMA
We won’t make progress on decarbonization until we rein in the power of fossil fuel asset owners and invest in green assets. Tax and investment policy can help.
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February 3, 2026 at 7:56 PM
My latest on Existential Politics and climate change in @noemamag.com. Climate policy should focus on dollars, not tons of emissions!
“Science & advocacy awakened people to the threat of fossil-fuel-driven environmental catastrophe...” @bentleyallan.bsky.social writes. “Yet it was naive to believe that this alone could transform a global energy system forged over centuries by war & empire."
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The New Geopolitics Of The Green Transition | NOEMA
The only path forward for tackling the climate crisis hinges on cooperative industrial strategies to coordinate clean energy investment and infrastructure development.
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February 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM
“Science & advocacy awakened people to the threat of fossil-fuel-driven environmental catastrophe...” @bentleyallan.bsky.social writes. “Yet it was naive to believe that this alone could transform a global energy system forged over centuries by war & empire."
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“Roughly two-thirds of global emissions between 1854 & 2010 are linked to just 90 firms.
And for decades, these firms have been obstructing progress on climate change to protect their bottom lines & to avoid the potential total devaluation of their assets.”
— @greenprofgreen.bsky.social
And for decades, these firms have been obstructing progress on climate change to protect their bottom lines & to avoid the potential total devaluation of their assets.”
— @greenprofgreen.bsky.social
It’s Time To Target The Political Power Of Polluters | NOEMA
We won’t make progress on decarbonization until we rein in the power of fossil fuel asset owners and invest in green assets. Tax and investment policy can help.
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February 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM
“Roughly two-thirds of global emissions between 1854 & 2010 are linked to just 90 firms.
And for decades, these firms have been obstructing progress on climate change to protect their bottom lines & to avoid the potential total devaluation of their assets.”
— @greenprofgreen.bsky.social
And for decades, these firms have been obstructing progress on climate change to protect their bottom lines & to avoid the potential total devaluation of their assets.”
— @greenprofgreen.bsky.social
“Might embodied AIs, combined with living systems, become meaning-makers with agency?”
—Natalie Lawrence
#intelligence #consciousness
—Natalie Lawrence
#intelligence #consciousness
What Counts As A Mind? | NOEMA
From chatbots to climbing beans, new research challenges our deepest assumptions about intelligence and consciousness.
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January 29, 2026 at 6:32 PM
“Might embodied AIs, combined with living systems, become meaning-makers with agency?”
—Natalie Lawrence
#intelligence #consciousness
—Natalie Lawrence
#intelligence #consciousness
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"How close are we now to lucrative evangelical expressionism?"
What we're reading this week: pieces from @vanmusicmag.bsky.social @noemamag.com @aeon.co @theatlantic.com @artforum.com @nplusonemag.com @newrepublic.com @thebaffler.com @intelligencer.com @nytimes.com pghrev.com/what-were-re...
What we're reading this week: pieces from @vanmusicmag.bsky.social @noemamag.com @aeon.co @theatlantic.com @artforum.com @nplusonemag.com @newrepublic.com @thebaffler.com @intelligencer.com @nytimes.com pghrev.com/what-were-re...
What We're Reading the Fifth Week of January 2026 - Pittsburgh Review of Books
A roundup of what the Pittsburgh Review of Book’s class is reading the fifth week of January 2026:
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January 29, 2026 at 2:37 PM
"How close are we now to lucrative evangelical expressionism?"
What we're reading this week: pieces from @vanmusicmag.bsky.social @noemamag.com @aeon.co @theatlantic.com @artforum.com @nplusonemag.com @newrepublic.com @thebaffler.com @intelligencer.com @nytimes.com pghrev.com/what-were-re...
What we're reading this week: pieces from @vanmusicmag.bsky.social @noemamag.com @aeon.co @theatlantic.com @artforum.com @nplusonemag.com @newrepublic.com @thebaffler.com @intelligencer.com @nytimes.com pghrev.com/what-were-re...
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"The successor to mass social media is [...] emerging not as a single platform, but as a scattering of alleyways, salons, encrypted lounges and federated town squares — those little gardens."
“The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
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January 28, 2026 at 11:02 PM
"The successor to mass social media is [...] emerging not as a single platform, but as a scattering of alleyways, salons, encrypted lounges and federated town squares — those little gardens."
Neuroscientist @anilseth.bsky.social's new essay in Noema is a rigorous & compelling challenge to the notion that complex computation like AI can give rise to consciousness, Nathan Gardels writes.
#consciousness #ai
#consciousness #ai
Only What Is Alive Can Be Conscious | NOEMA
Artificial intelligence doesn’t meet the test.
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January 28, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Neuroscientist @anilseth.bsky.social's new essay in Noema is a rigorous & compelling challenge to the notion that complex computation like AI can give rise to consciousness, Nathan Gardels writes.
#consciousness #ai
#consciousness #ai
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"Find yourself in another world."
Today's article pick from Damn History, a free newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @christianelliott.me & @noemamag.com!
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Today's article pick from Damn History, a free newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @christianelliott.me & @noemamag.com!
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Where The Prairie Still Remains | NOEMA
Are pioneer cemeteries key to the Iowa prairie’s revival, or its final resting place?
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January 28, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"Find yourself in another world."
Today's article pick from Damn History, a free newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @christianelliott.me & @noemamag.com!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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Today's article pick from Damn History, a free newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @christianelliott.me & @noemamag.com!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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“The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
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January 28, 2026 at 3:31 PM
“The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
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"The tech industry’s whiz kids once promised convenience at your fingertips. Now they’re embracing the military-industrial complex to defend the West."
— @tfa.ng in @noemamag.com
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— @tfa.ng in @noemamag.com
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Silicon Valley Goes To War | NOEMA
The tech industry’s whiz kids once promised convenience at your fingertips. Now they’re embracing the military-industrial complex to defend the West.
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January 27, 2026 at 7:15 PM
"The tech industry’s whiz kids once promised convenience at your fingertips. Now they’re embracing the military-industrial complex to defend the West."
— @tfa.ng in @noemamag.com
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— @tfa.ng in @noemamag.com
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The tech industry’s whiz kids once promised convenience at your fingertips. Now they’re embracing the military-industrial complex to defend the West, @tfa.ng writes.
#defensetech #siliconvalley #defense
#defensetech #siliconvalley #defense
Silicon Valley Goes To War | NOEMA
The tech industry’s whiz kids once promised convenience at your fingertips. Now they’re embracing the military-industrial complex to defend the West.
www.noemamag.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:12 PM
The tech industry’s whiz kids once promised convenience at your fingertips. Now they’re embracing the military-industrial complex to defend the West, @tfa.ng writes.
#defensetech #siliconvalley #defense
#defensetech #siliconvalley #defense
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From the iconic "Earthrise" photo to the shifting hues of oceans, Earth's colors have long shaped our political imagination. This essay argues: color is not mere decoration but a mirror of human impact—and an invitation to act.
By @frederic-hanusch.bsky.social in @noemamag.com
By @frederic-hanusch.bsky.social in @noemamag.com
The Politics Of Planetary Color | NOEMA
Color once taught us to see and value our planet. It now records how we are altering it.
buff.ly
January 26, 2026 at 12:01 PM
From the iconic "Earthrise" photo to the shifting hues of oceans, Earth's colors have long shaped our political imagination. This essay argues: color is not mere decoration but a mirror of human impact—and an invitation to act.
By @frederic-hanusch.bsky.social in @noemamag.com
By @frederic-hanusch.bsky.social in @noemamag.com
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So glad sometime finally told this story. I learned about pioneer cemeteries holding the last remnants of tallgrass prairie when I lived in Iowa. Christian Elliott in @noemamag.com does justice to a complex story about loss, restoration, and a clash between culture and nature. #scicomm #Writing
"Only in the last 200 years did farmers transform these acres into neat cornfields." —Christian Elliott for
@noemamag.com
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@noemamag.com
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Where The Prairie Still Remains | NOEMA
Are pioneer cemeteries key to the Iowa prairie’s revival, or its final resting place?
www.noemamag.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:41 PM
So glad sometime finally told this story. I learned about pioneer cemeteries holding the last remnants of tallgrass prairie when I lived in Iowa. Christian Elliott in @noemamag.com does justice to a complex story about loss, restoration, and a clash between culture and nature. #scicomm #Writing
“When we mediate our forms of worship through the architecture of algorithms, we are inviting another god into the room.”
— @johnwlast.bsky.social
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— @johnwlast.bsky.social
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The Vanishing Art Of Building Sacred Spaces | NOEMA
In the age of the algorithm, the West has lost its philosophy of spiritual architecture, and with it the language of holy enchantment.
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January 26, 2026 at 5:02 PM
“When we mediate our forms of worship through the architecture of algorithms, we are inviting another god into the room.”
— @johnwlast.bsky.social
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— @johnwlast.bsky.social
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“Sovereignty is the power to decide what appears to machines — &, through them, to the humans & institutions that depend on their judgments.”
— @digitaldang.bsky.social
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— @digitaldang.bsky.social
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A Third Path For AI Beyond The US-China Binary | NOEMA
What if the future of AI isn’t defined by Washington or Beijing, but by improvisation elsewhere?
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January 25, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“Sovereignty is the power to decide what appears to machines — &, through them, to the humans & institutions that depend on their judgments.”
— @digitaldang.bsky.social
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— @digitaldang.bsky.social
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“Efforts to combat misinformation have largely left us defensive, reacting to strategies & narratives used by those who spread it.”
— @zevesanderson.com & Scott Babwah Brennen
— @zevesanderson.com & Scott Babwah Brennen
We Failed The Misinformation Fight. Now What? | NOEMA
Defending democracy in the digital age will require moving beyond the focus of fighting online misinformation.
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January 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“Efforts to combat misinformation have largely left us defensive, reacting to strategies & narratives used by those who spread it.”
— @zevesanderson.com & Scott Babwah Brennen
— @zevesanderson.com & Scott Babwah Brennen
“In the most powerful speech in Davos this week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney laid out a forward-looking vision for those who must operate in the breach.”
—Nathan Gardels
#carney #davos #worldorder
—Nathan Gardels
#carney #davos #worldorder
The Middle Powers Step Up | NOEMA
Can the “countries in between” forge a counterweight to the dominant spheres of influence?
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January 23, 2026 at 6:13 PM
“In the most powerful speech in Davos this week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney laid out a forward-looking vision for those who must operate in the breach.”
—Nathan Gardels
#carney #davos #worldorder
—Nathan Gardels
#carney #davos #worldorder
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“…sustaining the shared information commons”
Compelling essay by Hamilton Mann for @noemamag.com
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Compelling essay by Hamilton Mann for @noemamag.com
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The AI-Powered Web Is Eating Itself | NOEMA
Without a framework of “Artificial Integrity,” AI search platforms risk collapsing the information commons that made the web possible.
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January 23, 2026 at 11:30 AM
“…sustaining the shared information commons”
Compelling essay by Hamilton Mann for @noemamag.com
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Compelling essay by Hamilton Mann for @noemamag.com
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“Until recently, an implicit social contract governed the web: Creators produced content, search engines distributed it, & in return, user traffic flowed back to the creators’ websites that sustained the system.”
But not anymore, @hamiltonmann.bsky.social writes: www.noemamag.com/the-ai-power...
But not anymore, @hamiltonmann.bsky.social writes: www.noemamag.com/the-ai-power...
January 22, 2026 at 6:03 PM
“Until recently, an implicit social contract governed the web: Creators produced content, search engines distributed it, & in return, user traffic flowed back to the creators’ websites that sustained the system.”
But not anymore, @hamiltonmann.bsky.social writes: www.noemamag.com/the-ai-power...
But not anymore, @hamiltonmann.bsky.social writes: www.noemamag.com/the-ai-power...
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NEW: The OII's DPhil student Ben Bariach writes for Noema Magazine on world models, epistemology and society, previewing his ongoing research on the philosophy and governance of frontier AI at Oxford.
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When AI & Human Worlds Collide | NOEMA
Can we imagine a future where synthetic AI worlds shape ours?
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January 22, 2026 at 11:52 AM
NEW: The OII's DPhil student Ben Bariach writes for Noema Magazine on world models, epistemology and society, previewing his ongoing research on the philosophy and governance of frontier AI at Oxford.
www.noemamag.com/when-ai-huma...
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