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A Standing Peoples’ Assembly For Europe | NOEMA
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An innovation aimed at empowering the body politic and closing the democratic deficit.
on Sep 5
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Does Space Need Environmentalists? | NOEMA
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Absent environmental protections, iconic features like the rings of Saturn and the Apollo 11 landing site face an uncertain future.
#space #spaceenvironment #spaceenvironmentalism
11h ago
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The Making Of A New American Epidemic | NOEMA
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Unchecked development is encroaching into parched desert landscapes and kicking up more than just a little dust — it’s raising the risk of a mysterious new infection.
21h ago
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The Long Defeat? Or The Advent of Planetary Intelligence? | NOEMA
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The ideas of the Berggruen Prize Essay Competition winners.
on Nov 9
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I asked an AI to predict the near future of art and creative work. This is the story it told me.
on Oct 31
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In Mexico, people who are “tocado” — “touched” — reveal that geological traumas, like earthquakes, can destabilize our concepts of health, identity and even time.
on Oct 29
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The Clash Of Two Gilded Ages | NOEMA
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Despite their great power rivalry, America and China are more similar than most people think. Both are living through a Gilded Age and struggling to end the excesses of capitalism.
on Oct 20
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It’s Time To Give Up Hope For A Better Climate & Get Heroic | NOEMA
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For humanity’s fight against climate change to gain real momentum, we need to find the selfless courage that comes when our time is inevitably nigh.
on Oct 19
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China Builds A New Eurasia | NOEMA
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China’s efforts to decarbonize are upending a world economy dependent on the petrodollar and, in the process, restructuring the U.S.-led world.
on Oct 18
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The Coming Second Copernican Revolution | NOEMA
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Astrobiology is rewiring our understanding of the intimate connection between life and planets as they appear in the universe.
on Oct 17
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Al Will Take Over Human Systems From Within | NOEMA
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It’s not a tool, but an alien agent, says Yuval Noah Harari in an interview.
on Oct 16
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The Precondition For Global Cooperation | NOEMA
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Divergent “industrial strategies” in the U.S., China and Europe can create the security to open up.
on Oct 3
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Mexico’s Slide From Democracy Toward Tyranny | NOEMA
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Dismantling Mexico’s independent judicial and electoral institutions is a tragedy for the country, writes the former president whose constitutional reforms helped establish them.
on Sep 29
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The Human Cost Of Our AI-Driven Future | NOEMA
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Behind AI’s rapid advance and our sanitized feeds, an invisible global workforce endures unimaginable trauma.
on Sep 25
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AI Safety Is A Global Public Good | NOEMA
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Chinese and Western AI scientists convene at the Berggruen Institute’s Casa dei Tre Oci In Venice, Italy.
on Sep 20
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How To Develop A Planetary Consciousness | NOEMA
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Democracy itself will have to be reinvented in the age of planetary crises, the philosopher Achille Mbembe argues. We need a new generation of rights that do not depend on the nation-state.
on Sep 20
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The Conundrum of Governing Cyberspace | NOEMA
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Whoever controls the means of connectivity rules.
on Sep 14
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Your AI Breaks It? You Buy It. | NOEMA
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AI developers should pay for what they screw up.
on Sep 11
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Why We Fear Diverse Intelligence Like AI | NOEMA
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Our fear of AI’s potential is emblematic of humanity’s larger difficulty recognizing intelligence in unfamiliar guises.
on Sep 5
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Making ‘Food Out Of Thin Air’ | NOEMA
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On the outskirts of Helsinki, a pioneering factory is harvesting natural, scalable proteins all from fermented bacteria. Could this be the future of food?
on Sep 1
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The Powerful Potential Of Tiny Conservation Plots | NOEMA
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Making space for environmental conservation in our densest concrete jungles.
on Sep 1
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The Climate Is Changing Faster Than Culture Can Cope | NOEMA
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Technology will have to patch the gap. But it is not a silver bullet.
on Aug 23
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Who Knows What Consciousness Is? | NOEMA
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The materialist download of qualia.
on Aug 16
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Hollywood’s Take On AI | NOEMA
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Either AI will serve the creative class, or it will serve AI.
on Aug 15
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The Battle Over Institutions | NOEMA
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A challenge to democracy’s infrastructure.
on Aug 10
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Inside Silicon Valley’s Grand Ambitions To Control Our Planet’s Thermostat | NOEMA
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Firms are flocking to invest in geoengineering projects. Could they turn a profit by preventing peril?
on Aug 8
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Life Need Not Ever End | NOEMA
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New interpretations of the laws of thermodynamics suggest the infamous “heat death” hypothesis, which foretells the end of all life and organization in the universe, might not hold.
on Aug 8
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Introducing Noema Issue V: Threshold | NOEMA
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Noema Magazine’s new print issue will be hot off the press very soon! The theme of this issue is “threshold.” History is fast approaching an inflection point. Humans are poised to cross thresholds on several...
on Aug 5
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The Myth Of The Noble Savage | NOEMA
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The figure of the “noble savage” has long served as an icon for humanity’s potential to co-exist with nature. But is it true?
on Jul 31
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It’s Oil That Makes LA Boil | NOEMA
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I never knew I lived in an oil town until I went looking for the concealed infrastructure of fossil fuel production. What’s also becoming visible is a new architecture of planetary sapience that’s enabling and hastening the green transition.
on Jul 31
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When History Returns, It Is Always More Complex | NOEMA
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The “three-body problem” of the intermediate-range nuclear missile race.
on Jul 20
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A Journey Into Rebel-Held Myanmar | NOEMA
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Seventeen years after I left my post as the U.N.’s representative in Myanmar, I crossed into the rebel-held part of the country to witness new forms of local governance emerge amid a dramatic revolution.
on Jul 19
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We Need An FDA For Artificial Intelligence | NOEMA
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What AI regulators can learn from the history of the FDA.
on Jul 16
From noemamag.com
An Archipelago Of Subcultures | NOEMA
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Deculturation has spawned a collage of clashing identities.
on Jul 15
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The Phantoms Haunting History | NOEMA
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To survive in a chaotic world, the discipline of history may need to evolve into something quite unpalatable to many historians: a form of narrative that politicizes the present.
on Jul 13
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The Secret, Magical Life Of Lithium | NOEMA
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One of the oldest, scarcest elements in the universe has given us treatments for mental illness, ovenproof casserole dishes and electric cars. But how much do we really know about lithium?
on Jul 11
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The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political. It benefits some, marginalizes others and blinds us from a true understanding of our own bodies and the world around us.
on Jul 5
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Living In A Lucid Dream | NOEMA
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Recent research on lucid dreams suggests that consciousness exists along a spectrum between sleep and waking, between hallucination and revelation, between dreamworlds and reality.
on Jul 2
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Overthrowing Our Tech Overlords | NOEMA
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Today’s tech barons treat their users however they like and believe there is little we can do to stop them. A cloud rebellion could change things.
on Jun 26
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The Five Stages Of AI Grief | NOEMA
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Grief-laden vitriol directed at AI fails to help us understand paths to better futures that are neither utopian nor dystopian, but open to radically weird possibilities.
on Jun 26
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The Booming Business Of Alabama’s Artificial Reefs | NOEMA
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Some 14,000 artificial reefs dot Alabama’s coast, transforming entire sections of the Gulf’s ecosystems. Supporters say they’re helping grow fish populations. But at what cost?
on Jun 26
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Putin And Xi Are Way Beyond The Rubicon | NOEMA
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Planetary cooperation on climate may be the most consequential casualty of the East-West divide.
on Jun 25
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The Geopolitics Of Social Cohesion | NOEMA
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Social media is pushing liberal societies to their outer limits.
on Jun 25
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Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable. | NOEMA
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Jonathan Haidt talks to Noema about “The Anxious Generation” and how technology is upending democracy.
on Jun 25
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China’s youthful urbanization changed the world. What will happen as the country ages and slows down?
on Jun 24
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The Unending Allure Of High Mountains | NOEMA
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A century after George Mallory’s disappearance on Everest, why do his words, “Because it’s there,” remain an indelible explanation for the human obsession with high places?
on Jun 9
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Behind The Facade Of Modi’s ‘New Kashmir’ | NOEMA
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Narendra Modi’s grand plan to tame the restive province masks the barren indifference, injustice and violence of the Indian state toward citizens it has long considered alien.
on Jun 6
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The Coming Entropy Of Our World Order | NOEMA
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How do we reconcile an increasingly fractured order with an increasingly planetary reality?
on Jun 4
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Chasing Utopia, Startup Style | NOEMA
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A group of Silicon Valley’s most powerful figures are building startup societies that they believe will set them free.
on Jun 3