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Ross AndersenThe Atlantic |
Scientists may have overstated eclipse risk. This afternoon, as the moon’s shadow slanted across the United States of America, millions upon...
Just stop. One Tuesday last month, Mark Zuckerberg uploaded a video to Instagram, but not to his Stories, where it would quickly disappear. This one...
A chipmaker turns into a star. Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos have each taken a turn as technology’s alpha dog, but none of them can...
Here come the Jhana bros. The first time I heard about the jhanas, they sounded too good to be true. These special mental states are described in the...
The opportunity may soon be upon us. One night last winter, over drinks in downtown Los Angeles, the biologist David Gruber told me that human beings...
The weather of catastrophe is here. An atmospheric river is exactly what it sounds like: a ribbon of concentrated moisture that can stretch for 1,000...
The brand’s rise and fall, and rise and fall again Few people have derived more profit from a colleague’s superstition than Tim Hallam, a former...
His life’s work was caring for the people he loved. Yesterday afternoon, my dad, Erik Dybkaer Andersen, lay sleeping at home in his hospice bed when...
Is the technology set to take another leap forward? Will it swing the election? Let us be thankful for the AI industry. Its leaders may be nudging...
The grim ironies of climate change The Belgian empire invaded the Congo rainforest during the late 19th century and swiftly established itself as the...
What was Ilya Sutskever thinking? Ilya Sutskever, bless his heart. Until recently, to the extent that Sutskever was known at all, it was as a...
A conversation with the director By the time I sat down with Christopher Nolan in his posh hotel suite not far from the White House, I guessed that he...
What it means that the world’s most powerful AI executive is out of a job Earlier this year, I asked Sam Altman whether decisions made by OpenAI’s...
War may be ancient, but it doesn’t have to go on forever. For millions of years, the river Ebro has sloshed south from Spain’s jagged Cantabrian...
It’s science. Whatever basketball’s blue-collar bona fides, whatever its associations with the barbershop and the neighborhood blacktop, its...
Humans have an image problem. But we might be able to use it for good. Imagine a contest that pits humans against lions to see which is more fearsome....
A collaboration that includes the United States, China, and Russia points us toward a better future. All of us living things have to find out where we...
An academic open letter turns into a free-for-all. For years now, Hakwan Lau has suffered from an inner torment. Lau is a neuroscientist who studies...
We need a new way to tell the story of humanity. In 1802, a marble procession of horses, humans, and gods was chiseled and sawed off the pediments...
The world’s largest-known deposit was just discovered in Nevada. What does that mean? About 16.4 million years ago, magma surged through a raised...