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Long-form Journalism
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
The New Yorker - Elizabeth Kolbert
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason. In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with of
Moral luck
aeon.co - Robert J Hartman
Two people drive drunk at night: one kills a pedestrian, one doesn't. Does the unlucky killer deserve more blame or not?By Robert J HartmanRead at …
Beyond the Five Senses
The Atlantic - Matthew Hutson
Telepathy, echolocation, and the future of perception The world we experience is not the real world. It’s a mental construction, filtered through our physical senses. Which raises the question: How would
Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future
waitbutwhy.com - Tim Urban
Note: If you want to print this post or read it offline, the PDF is probably the way to go. You can buy it here. And here’s a G-rated version of the …
Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand
Backchannel - WIRED Staff
The new availability of huge amounts of data, along with the statistical tools to crunch these numbers, offers a whole new way of understanding the …
10 scariest theories known to man.
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False vacuum. This is, in short, a scientific hypothesis that our universe is in a false phase state as part of a larger universe, like if it were a …
Goodbye things, hello minimalism: can living with less make you happier?
The Guardian - Fumio Sasaki
Fumio Sasaki owns a roll-up mattress, three shirts and four pairs of socks. After deciding to scorn possessions, he began feeling happier. He explains why Let me tell you a bit about myself. I’m 35 years
Materialism alone cannot explain the riddle of consciousness – Adam Frank
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Materialism holds the high ground these days in debates over that most ultimate of scientific questions: the nature of consciousness. When tackling …
What, if anything, can be said about what is unsayable? – Silvia Jonas
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In 2010, the artist Marina Abramović performed for 700 hours at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in a piece called The Artist is Present. It …
Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence? - Issue 42: Fakes
nautil.us - Caleb Scharf
Perhaps Arthur C. Clarke was being uncharacteristically unambitious. He once pointed out that any sufficiently advanced technology is going to be …
Jeremy England, the Man Who May One-Up Darwin
OZY - Meghan Walsh
On a sunny afternoon, at a bustling cafe less than a mile from Stanford University’s campus, near Palo Alto, and more than 5,000 miles from his home, …
Visions of Kenya
maptia.com - Maptia
By Fran Provedo // A long time went by before I was able to understand this trip. Sometimes, the present is not understood until it becomes the past. …
Cosa sta succedendo?
wittgenstein.it - Luca Sofri
Bisogna che mettiamo in fila un po’ di idee, perché le cose che negli ultimi anni siamo andati dicendo che “rischiavano di succedere”, adesso stanno …
Temples of modernity: where to see the best cutting-edge art
Lonely Planet - Joe Minihane
The floorspace of London’s Tate Modern – one of the city’s greatest tourist attractions – will more than double when the gallery’s multi-million-pound new extension opens this month. So what better time
Love of Life: Albert Camus on Happiness, Despair, the Art of Awareness, and Why We Travel
Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova
“There is no love of life without despair of life.” “Those who prefer their principles over their happiness,” Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) wrote in his notebook toward the end of his
Preparing For The Technology Revolution Created By Artificial Intelligence
TechCrunch - Randy Komisar
Artificial Intelligence will soon bring on another technological revolution, where machines may take your job and shake up the economy in the process. Drones are being used in warfare; Google, Tesla, other
The Problem Isn't That Life Is Unfair — It's That You Don't Know The Rules
Business Insider - Oliver Emberton
Unless you're winning, most of life will seem hideously unfair to you. The truth is, life is just playing by different rules. The real rules are there. They actually make sense. But they're a bit more
La gravità. “È ancora così misteriosa che ci vorrebbe un nuovo Einstein”
lastampa.it - La Stampa
Einstein è scomparso, la Relatività è in ottima salute e ci servirebbe un altro Einstein. Sembra strano, eppure, nonostante i fisici in circolazione …
Psychology Tools | Evidence-Based CBT Worksheets
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Your online library of therapy resources or browse worksheets 211 Resources 53 Languages 1759 Translations Tested With Clients The leading online resource for …
The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War?
The Atlantic - Graham Allison
In 12 of 16 past cases in which a rising power has confronted a ruling power, the result has been bloodshed. When Barack Obama meets this week with Xi Jinping during the Chinese president’s first state
L’ARABIA DEI SA‘ŪD - Limes
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A DISTANZA DI SEI MESI DALL’ULTIMA riunione dell’Opec in cui il ministro saudita del Petrolio ‘Alī al-Na‘imī ha lanciato il guanto della sfida ai …
Don’t Worry, Smart Machines Will Take Us With Them - Issue 28: 2050
nautil.us - By Stephen Hsu Illustration by Sachin Teng September 3, 2015
When it comes to artificial intelligence, we may all be suffering from the fallacy of availability: thinking that creating intelligence is much …
A Manager's Manifesto
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Julie ZhuoBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Feb 1, 2013 10) Always get the full story before making a decision. 9) It's incredibly easy to 'flip the switch' …
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20-Year-Old Hunter S. Thompson’s Surprisingly Sage Advice on How to Find Your Purpose and Live a Meaningful Life
Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova
“It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.” As a hopeless lover of both letters and notable advice, I was delighted to discover a letter 20-year-old Hunter S.
Connected, but alone?
ted.com - Sherry Turkle
As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human …
Cosa si nasconde dietro le nostre rabbie quotidiane
internazionale.it - Nicola Lagioia
20 febbraio 2015 13:27 “Dovresti finire in galera”. “Sei un cane!”. “Pezzo di merda”. “Peggio della camorra”. “Si vergogni! Sono una professoressa e …
The Bridge From Nowhere - Issue 16: Nothingness
nautil.us - By Amanda Gefter August 7, 2014
The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.” So concluded William James in thinking about that most basic of riddles: how did something …