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20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020
~19 min read · 66 saves · Jul 26th · Guy Lodge · From climate change to Black Lives Matter, these are the films that best capture and explain what’s going on around us
Could Microsoft’s climate crisis ‘moonshot’ plan really work?
8 min read · 96 saves · Apr 23rd · The tech giant’s pledge to go carbon negative by 2030 leans heavily on nascent technology such as machines that suck carbon out of the…
Will Florida be lost forever to the climate crisis?
~11 min read · 95 saves · Apr 21st · From sea level rise to habitat loss, the effects of the climate crisis are on the verge of making south Florida uninhabitable
Win-win solutions are a fantasy: in reality, progress creates both winners and losers
1 min read · Paywall possible · 90 saves · Jan 6th · It’s no secret that the biggest gains in the growing global economy are reaped by the extremely wealthy. And from philanthropy to tech initiatives,…
It’s the End of California as We Know It
4 min read · Paywall possible · 53 saves · 2019-10-30 · Farhad Manjoo · The fires and the blackouts are connected to a larger problem in this state: a failure to live sustainably.
Marc Benioff on Why We Need New Capitalism
2 min read · 41 saves · 2019-10-14 · In an opinion piece for The New York Times, Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff argues: It’s time for a new capitalism — a…
What happens if your mind lives for ever on the internet?
8 min read · 234 saves · 2019-10-20 · Michael Graziano · It may be some way off, but mind uploading, the digital duplication of your mental essence, could expand human experience into a virtual afterlife
Peak California
~12 min read · 54 saves · 2019-03-08 · California is hard to beat. There are richer places with worse weather, there are (a few) nicer climates with worse economies, but it’s…
Why AI is a threat to democracy—and what we can do to stop it
7 min read · Paywall possible · 85 saves · 2019-02-26 · Futurist and NYU professor Amy Webb on an impending artificial intelligence catastrophe—and why there’s still hope it can be averted.
The Evolution of Trust
815 saves · From 2017 · an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other
Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chinese city, study finds
5 min read · 44 saves · 2019-08-12 · Solar power has become cheaper than grid electricity across China, a development that could boost the prospects of industrial and commercial solar, according to…
Why Your Brain Can’t Process Climate Change
4 min read · 49 saves · 2019-08-14 · Our brains aren't good processing future catastrophic events like climate change