A 62 page Deep Dive hosted by Commons Strategies Group in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation and David Graeber. What is “value” and how shall we protect it? It’s […]
Welcome to Pleistocene Park
In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths. A longish read there’s a 60 min […]
How Facebook, fake news and friends are warping your memory
Research on collective recall takes on new importance in a post-fact world. Strange things have been happening in the news lately. Already this year, members of US President Donald […]
URLs I Find Informative, Part 2
URLs I find informative, part 2. Inform yourself; the first step towards action! All of these sites will send you a daily or weekly summary of content, and all of […]
Sorry, Y’All—Humanity’s Nearing an Upgrade to Irrelevance
A short interview with the author of Homo Deus: a Brief History of Tomorrow. HUMANITY HAS HAD astonishing success alleviating famine, disease, and war. (It might not always seem […]