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December 26, 2025 at 6:54 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.

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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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December 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Settle in with some fantastic reading 📚

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Noema’s Top 10 Reads Of 2025 | NOEMA
Our best longform journalism and essays from 2025.
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December 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“All our scientific stories — & the technologies we build from them — must always include us & our place within the tapestries of life.”

@adamfrank4.bsky.social
Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet) | NOEMA
To understand life, we must stop treating organisms like machines and minds like code.
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December 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“In a surprisingly literal sense, we are indeed all made of light, as is everything we perceive or understand.”

—Swami Sarvapriyananda, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Carlo Rovelli

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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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December 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"Green technologies such as solar panels, wind turbines & EVs have major thermodynamic advantages over fossil fuels, the drilling, extraction, refining & transportation of which result in expensive energy losses at every distribution & conversion point."

@bentleyallan.bsky.social
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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December 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Great conversation with @mariannedhe.bsky.social about their @noemamag.com article on the history of air conditioning in the Gulf States.

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Air Conditioning and Climate Disaster ft. Marianne Dhenin
Podcast Episode · The Study Hall Podcast · 12/22/2025 · 35m
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December 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Remigration is word of the year, says @stephenkb.bsky.social in the FT. If you want to see the shape of things to come, check out our @noemamag.com
longread on Denmark, where remigration is now in the political mainstream.
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December 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
May this season find you surrounded by light 🕎
December 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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My article, From Statecraft to Soulcraft, was selected by @noemamag.com as one of its Top Ten Reads of 2025.

I’m proud of this piece. It’s onto something big: post-liberal states today—from China to Hungary to MAGA—make the Good Life core state business.

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Noema’s Top 10 Reads Of 2025 | NOEMA
Our best longform journalism and essays from 2025.
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December 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Check out our favorite artwork from the past year, created by artists from all around the world 🗺️
Noema’s Top Artwork Of 2025 | NOEMA
Here’s our favorite artwork from the past year.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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In a world where power is misused, public morality has become slippery and dishonesty lurches sickeningly through public speech, animals can offer vital lessons for human ethics, political wisdom and social health [ @jay-griffiths.bsky.social @noemamag.com ] www.noemamag.com/the-moral-au...
The Moral Authority Of Animals | NOEMA
For millennia before we showed up on the scene, social animals — those living in societies and cooperating for survival — had been creating cultures imbued with ethics.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“These are the last days of social media, not because we lack content, but because the attention economy has neared its limit — we have exhausted the capacity to care. There is more to watch, read, click & react to than ever before — an endless buffet of stimulation."

@jamesosullivan.bsky.social
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Check out our best longform journalism & essays of the year, with stories covering everything from the last days of social media to the unseen fury of solar storms.

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Noema’s Top 10 Reads Of 2025 | NOEMA
Our best longform journalism and essays from 2025.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“Vietnam’s third stack is more than a hedge against platform dependence: it is a rehearsal for a future in which AI agents — trained locally, governed modularly — enact a worldview not defined by Silicon Valley or Beijing.”

@digitaldang.bsky.social
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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December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“If spires & arches & ancient cavern churches no longer give shape to our worship, what does? Can we still build a temple worthy of God?”

@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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December 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“We [must] figure out how our contemporary communication system can strengthen democracy, rather than myopically focus on correcting falsehoods.”

@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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December 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Like others who think differently & come from outside the insider establishment, Frank Gehry rebelled against the custodians of proper & hallowed ways.”

—Nathan Gardels

#frankgehry #architecture
The Creative Intuition Of Frank Gehry | NOEMA
“I’m not a theorist, but a vacuum cleaner.”
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December 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“If we misunderstand what science is, mistaking automation of method for the human project of collectively constructing, debating & refining the symbolic representations through which we make sense of reality, AI may foretell the death of science.”

@saraimari.bsky.social

#science #ai
The Death Of The Scientist | NOEMA
Will AI kill science, or will it foster a scientific revolution? The answer depends on something no one knows: What is science?
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December 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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“A growing ecological movement sees the solution in bioregionalism: the idea of reorganizing social and economic life around the natural boundaries of the ecosystems that host and sustain us.” Recommended read by @dougbierend.bsky.social for @noemamag.com
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Inside Bioregionalism’s Tech-Driven Revival | NOEMA
As the climate crisis deepens, an old green dream is returning — with new tools and technologies.
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December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
We're so excited to see this!
A huge thanks to Carolyn Wells for choosing my feature for @noemamag.com “How to Build a Thousand-Year-Old Tree” among her top reads for 2025!
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It's not too late to sit down for a longread on oak trees and advanced technologies
A Year in Reading: Backrooms, Backcountry, and Back Home - Longreads
From two side of the world—these are the stories shining a light on the overlooked corners often holding the pieces together.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
A future filled with many AI personas — from the bad boy to the brown-noser — isn’t a mistake; it’s the best way to work with the technology, Phil Nolan argues.
Embracing A World Of Many AI Personalities | NOEMA
A future filled with many AI personas — from the bad boy to the brown-noser — isn’t a mistake; it’s the best way to work with the technology.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“AI companies use the future to justify the present, as though speculative benefits should outweigh actual, ongoing damages. This temporal shell game, destroying the world to save it, would be comedic if the consequences weren’t so severe.”

@jamesosullivan.bsky.social

#agi #superintelligence #ai
The Politics Of Superintelligence | NOEMA
Today’s tech “prophets” push a narrative that God-like artificial superintelligence is inevitable, and only they can ensure humanity’s safety from their creations.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM