August 26, 2025
So You’ve Decided to Save Your Kids from Tech
In Ray Bradbury’s 1950 short story “The Veldt,” two children grow more attached to their Happylife Home, a fully...
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August 21, 2025
How Bill McKibben Lost the Plot
Some years ago, my colleagues and I used to joke that after the revolution, all essays about climate change would be...
March 7, 2025
Are We Under-Bubbled?
For Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber, partners at the tech investment firm Anomaly, a financial bubble is the closest that...
December 9, 2024
So You’ve Decided To Carry Your Brain Around
If the worry during the Enlightenment, as mathematician Isaac Milner wrote in 1794, was that ‘the great and high’...
December 9, 2024
One to Zero
Anyone who has worked with ChatGPT or a similar AI chatbot has felt its growing usefulness. These models process and...
July 2, 2024
Virtual Reality Reboots History
The extensive discussion and financial success of Alex Garland’s latest film Civil War, set in the United States of...
May 14, 2024
How Sad Do You Feel Right Now?
Therapists are lurking everywhere. That’s the warning Abigail Shrier offers in her new book Bad Therapy: Why the Kids...
April 12, 2024
There Is a Planet B
The Red Planet has long captured human imagination, going at least as far back as the ancient Greeks, who designated it...
April 12, 2024
Turn on, Tune in, Write Code
In the summer of 1930, the anthropologist Margaret Mead and her second husband and fellow anthropologist, Reo Fortune,...
January 22, 2024