The Dead End of Checks and Balances
The Dead End of Checks and Balances Far from the cure to Trumpian authoritarianism, the U.S. constitutional system is driving our democratic decline. Lisa L. Miller Read more [...] Read more
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, Iain McGilChrist The Matter With Things is an ambitious, thought-provoking work that challenges readers to reconsider [...] Read more
Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence | John Searle | Talks at Google
John Searle is the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His Talk at Google is focused on the philosophy of mind and the potential for consciousness in artificial [...] Read more
Self-reproduction as an autonomous process of growth and reorganization in fully abiotic, artificial and synthetic cells
Self-reproduction as an autonomous process of growth
and reorganization in fully abiotic, artificial and synthetic cells Abstract
We investigate mechanisms for the observed nonlinear growth in the [...] Read more
REVIEW: ILLICH DESCHOOLING SOCIETY
Ivan Illich’s book, Deschooling Society, released in 1971, takes a bold stance on education. At a time when schools were expanding everywhere in the postwar West, Illich argued that traditional [...] Read more
Slavery in the name of progress | A Wake-Up Call by Martin Scorsese
Surviving Progress explores the dangerous paradox at the heart of modern civilization: what we call "progress" might actually be leading us toward collapse. Based on Ronald Wright’s concept of the [...] Read more
Arctic predicted to warm more than three times faster than global average: WMO report
A new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released on Wednesday says the Arctic is set to warm more than three and a half times faster than the global average over the next five [...] Read more
The Happiness Trap: How Humans Became Terrified of Scarcity
Picture yourself at the top of a hill. You’ve just been hiking for an hour without any breakfast. From your backpack you pull out a piece of stale bread, some sweaty olives, cheese, and whatever [...] Read more
Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
By Maria Popova
“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being,” James Baldwin observed as he offered his lifeline for the hour of despair. “I am aware that [...] Read more
Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds
Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions remains a classic “wake‐up call” on the perils of collective irrationality. While its [...] Read more