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The Coming Software Apocalypse
A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes. By James Somers.
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One Hundred Great Works of Dystopian Fiction
Tales about a world gone wrong.
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How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation
The evolutionary biologist Jessica Flack seeks the computational rules that groups of organisms use to solve problems. By Joshua Sokol.
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The Neuroscience of a Lynching
The science of hate can help us realise who the real criminal is: is it the lynchers, the instigators or both? And is an apathetic government complicit? By Sumaiya Shaikh.
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Globalisation: the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world
The long read: It’s not just a populist backlash – many economists who once swore by free trade have changed their minds, too. How had they got it so wrong? By Nikil Saval.
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A despot in disguise: one man’s mission to rip up democracy
James McGill Buchanan’s vision of totalitarian capitalism has infected public policy in the US. Now it’s being exported. By George Monbiot.
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Are You Ready To Consider That Capitalism Is The Real Problem?
Before you say no, take a moment to really ask yourself whether it’s the system that’s best suited to build our future society. By Jason Hickel, Martin Kirk.
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The Criminal 'Laws' of Counterinsurgency
A new book traces how the CIA and U.S. counterinsurgency warfare operatives adopted lessons from the Nazis' fight against the partisans and evolved into a dangerous law onto themselves, writes retired JAG Major Todd E. Pierce.
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2017 Technical Papers Preview Trailer
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The Soviet Union Is Gone, But It’s Still Collapsing
And five other unlearned lessons from leading experts about modern Russia and the death of an empire. (Dec. 22, 2016)
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Are You Lost In The World Like Me?
Moby and The Void Pacific Choir
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Can Many-Worlds Theory Rescue Us From Boltzmann Brains?
Boltzmann’s theory leads to a paradox, where the very scientific assumption that we can trust what we observe leads to the conclusion that we can’t trust what we observe. By Brian Koberlein.
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It’s Time to Take the Gaia Hypothesis Seriously
“Perhaps life is something that happens not on a planet but to a planet: It is something that a planet becomes.” By David Grinspoon
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Why Foucault’s work on power is more important than ever
Original, painstaking, sometimes frustrating and often dazzling. Foucault’s work on power matters now more than ever. By Colin Koopman.
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Symmetry
Max Cooper, Tom Hodge, Kevin McGloughlin
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Man Dying From Cancer Spends Last Good Day On Phone With Insurance Company
Displaying a level of strength and mobility that he will never again possess as he paced back and forth across his living room Tuesday, terminally ill man Thomas Halverson reportedly spent the last good day of his life on the phone with his insurance company. [Satire]
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Donald Trump is not the problem – he’s the symptom
Trump is what happens when you fail to understand our global problems in their interconnected, systemic context. By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.
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Order from Chaos
Max Cooper. Video by Maxime Causeret
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Balance
Tobias Hutzler
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Seeing Wetiko
On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition. By Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk.
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