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Eclipse Panic Got a Little Out of Hand

Scientists may have overstated eclipse risk. This afternoon, as the moon’s shadow slanted across the United States of America, millions upon...

09.04.2024 10

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The Drama Kings of Tech

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...

18.03.2024 8

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Jensen Huang Is Tech’s New Alpha Dog

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...

07.03.2024 6

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The Meditation Start-Up That’s Selling Bliss on Demand

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...

04.03.2024 20

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What’s the First Thing We Should Say to the Whales?

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...

24.02.2024 20

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California’s Climate Has Come Unmoored

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...

07.02.2024 6

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Peak Air Jordan Is Over

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...

19.01.2024 6

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My Father, the Giant

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...

04.01.2024 20

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The Big Questions About AI in 2024

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...

22.12.2023 5

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War in the Congo Has Kept the Planet Cooler

The grim ironies of climate change The Belgian empire invaded the Congo rainforest during the late 19th century and swiftly established itself as the...

05.12.2023 60

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The Man Who Tried to Overthrow Sam Altman

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...

21.11.2023 6

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Christopher Nolan on the Promise and Peril of Technology

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...

20.11.2023 7

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The Sudden Fall of Sam Altman

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...

18.11.2023 10

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Did Humans Ever Live in Peace?

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...

13.11.2023 6

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The NBA Is Harder Now

It’s science. Whatever basketball’s blue-collar bona fides, whatever its associations with the barbershop and the neighborhood blacktop, its...

27.10.2023 3

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Humans Have an Image Problem

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....

16.10.2023 5

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How We Find Our Place in the Universe

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...

09.10.2023 9

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The Science of Consciousness Is Having a Rumble

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...

29.09.2023 6

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What Comes After the British Museum?

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...

20.09.2023 8

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American Lithium Could Change the World

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...

14.09.2023 8

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