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Nov 26, 2022
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A World Divided: Russia, China and the West: today’s geopolitical divide does not depend upon historical ties or cultural affinity. Rather, it finds its basis within politics and political ideology: namely, whether regimes are democratic or authoritarian, and whether societies are liberal or illiberal in their fundamental view of life.

Weapons industry booms as Eastern Europe arms Ukraine: acquired weapons and equipment via donations from governments and direct commercial contracts between Kyiv and the manufacturers.

How many yottabytes in a quettabyte?

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement: “May we live long and die out”

The Atlas of Migration 2022

The Anti-Promethean Backlash: the broad-based cultural turn away from those forms of technological progress that extend and amplify human mastery over the physical world. The quest to build bigger, go farther and faster and higher, and harness ever greater sources of power was, if not abandoned, then greatly deprioritized in the United States and other rich democracies starting in the 1960s and 70s. We made it to the moon, and then stopped going. We pioneered commercial supersonic air travel, and then discontinued it. We developed nuclear power, and then stopped building new plants. There is really no precedent for this kind of abdication of powers in Western modernity

Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich? The question of why some countries join the developed world while others remain in poverty has vexed economists for decades. What makes it so hard to answer?

The three eras of global inequality, 1820-2020 with the focus on the past thirty years

“Work More, Consume Less” - How Austerity Coerces: The crisis of capitalism that followed the Great War was, for some people of means, an acute and terrifying development.

Unemployment demonstration during the Great Depression in front of the Capitol, 1931.
How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA: children born during the historic recession have markers of accelerated ageing later in life.

The Global Population Is Aging. Is Your Business Prepared?

Petition by Joan Astley, nurse of Henry VI, for an increase in salary: Recto: Petition by Joan, nurse of the king and wife of Thomas Astley, esquire, to Henry VI asking if her letter patent of 28 April 1423 granting her £20 a year could be cancelled in return for a new letter patent granting £40 a year. Dorse: Endorsement noting that Joan’s petition was accepted; given at Westminster, 16 January 1424.

Are You Ready for Workplace Brain Scanning? Get ready: Neurotechnology is coming to the workplace

Climate Change from A to Z: The stories we tell ourselves about the future.
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1947: At the time it was the world’s largest gas station

Bed Habits: One insomniac’s descent into the world of sleep research to understand what screens before bed are doing to our brains.

Deus Ex Human Revolution Panorama - created 2014 - Back in the saddle first room
Panoramas of Deus Ex Human Revolution

Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works: AI researchers are warning developers to focus more on how and why a system produces certain results than the fact that the system can accurately and rapidly produce them.

MoMA’s newest artist is an AI trained on 180,000 works, from Warhol to Pac-Man

Predicting the Future of AI with AI
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[Bully] Elon Musk started with a BASIC video game in 1984, Blastar
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The Real-World Locations of 14 Sci-Fi Dystopias
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Farm Noir: Rural Photos of Strange Beauty and Mystery
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Fantasy football: a kickabout with the surrealists [+ Evolution of the World Cup ball]
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