What If We Could Repurpose All Parking Lots?
Parking lots are an eyesore and steal livable space in many cities, yet they have always been treated as a necessary urban evil. But what about in ten years? Or twenty?
Rohit Bhargava
“Prebunking” Could Fix Our Misinformation Problem
If debunking is proving something wrong after it has already been released, “prebunking” is the idea that you could prevent lies from being believed if you could warn people about the deception before it happens.
Why Microsoft’s Clippy Is Now a Pop Culture Icon
Clippy’s newfound popularity seems to reflect a hunger for the good old times when assistants might be annoying, but were also easily switched off and lived without. Unlike the ubiquitous voice assistants of today.
One Simple Way To Solve the College Loan Debt Crisis
What if student loans had zero percent interest? This is the one solution that could actually solve the student loan debt crisis without creating ensuing resentment and backlash among those who don’t benefit from it because they either chose not to borrow for college or already paid back their loans.
Should We Bring Extinct Animals Back To Life?
Humanity may be close to having the power to bring back extinct species. They are calling it “de-extinction” and the company behind the effort, Colossal Biosciences, is known for speaking ambitiously about solving the “colossal” problem of extinction by bringing back animals such as the Wooly Mammoth within 5 years. Of course, the natural Jurassic Parkian question … Read more
Back To School Images of the Past Show Us How Far We Have Come
Sometimes a deep dive into history is just what we need to appreciate how far we’ve come.
Real Journalism Is Dying … and It Might Be Your Fault
Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper chain and owner of more than 250 regional newspapers announced “dismal” earnings for the past quarter and announced another round of layoffs. In response, people have been proposing a lot of solutions, from allowing journalists to unionize to firing or reducing executive pay. Every time I read a story about the … Read more
A Scientist’s Joke Goes Horribly Wrong When People Take Him Seriously
Just because a piece of information comes from a “credible” source, we don’t live in a world where any media source should be trusted blindly–no matter how credible they seem.
Why I Will Never Buy a Macbook
I am a writer, so my keyboard is pretty important to me. It’s the reason why my computer of choice for the past two decades has consistently been a Lenovo Thinkpad. They have the best keyboards.
Frederick Douglass and How Photos Will Shape Our Idea History In the Future
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” Frederick Douglass wrote these words nearly 150 years ago, but hearing them this week as I … Read more
