WIRED
If AI Is Predicting Your Future, Are You Still Free?
3 min read · 2021-12-27 · Part of being human is being able to defy the odds. Algorithmic prophecies undermine that.
Aeon+Psyche
Are men animals? Yes but not in the way you might think
~11 min read · 2021-11-29 · Diagnosing men as violent and oversexed beasts is tempting but it’s a regressive idea built on dubious analogies
The New York Times
A Box of Cash, a Secret Donor and a Big Lift for Some N.Y.C. Students
5 min read · 2021-12-21 · When a City College physics professor opened an ordinary box that had been sitting in the mail room, he was startled by its contents.
MIT Technology Review
The metaverse has a groping problem already
6 min read · 2021-12-16 · A woman was sexually harassed on Meta’s VR social media platform. She’s not the first—and won’t be the last.
discoursemagazine.com
Was Kant the First “Woke” Philosopher?
10 min read · 2021-11-28 · Eighteenth century German philosopher Immanuel Kant famously argued that perception is more important than reality. As a result, Kantian ideas undergird much of today’s woke thinking. Indeed, Kant’s…
TED-Ed
10 ways to have a better conversation
2021-11-23 · When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations — and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for…
TED Talks
Sleep is your superpower
2021-10-17 · Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt Walker. In this deep dive into the science of slumber, Walker shares the wonderfully good things that happen when you get sleep -- and the alarmingly bad things that happen when you don't.
diariARA
La demostració científica de la bondat
3 min read · 2021-10-14 · La pregunta és un clàssic: qui té raó, Hobbes o Rousseau? ¿L’home és un llop per a l’home o la civilització ens ha fet malbé perquè érem (som) essencialment bons? La filosofia moral fa temps que hi…
Guardian Environment
Greta Thunberg: ‘I really see the value of friendship. Apart from the climate, almost nothing else matters’
~20 min read · 2021-09-25 · The world’s most famous teen activist opens up about how she’s been transformed since she started her school climate strike in 2018
The Verge
Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever
9 min read · 2021-09-22 · Professors are struggling to teach Gen Z
VilaWeb
Quan Illa insulta els morts del Partit Socialista i queda al descobert
4 min read · 2021-08-30 · El dirigent del PSC i president de l’anomenat Govern Alternatiu, Salvador Illa, va fer ahir unes declaracions al Diari de Girona que són molt interessants d’analitzar. Per diverses pistes que deixa…
VilaWeb
La recepta Pikkety: Sobiranisme universalista
1 min read · 2021-08-26 · L'economista francès defensa una nova alternativa al capitalisme en el llibre que avui arriba a les llibreries.
diariARA
Pol Galofre: “La meva identitat ara mateix es defineix per ser pare trans”
3 min read · 2021-08-26 · Com viu un home trans els canvis físics vinculats amb l'embaràs i el postpart?
edwardsnowden.substack.com
The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
7 min read · 2021-08-26 · “Under His Eye,” she says. The right farewell. “Under His Eye,” I reply, and she gives a little nod.
edwardsnowden.substack.com
A Hell Of Our Own Making
4 min read · 2021-08-18 · Reflections on the road to Kabul
