There’s an escaped giraffe on the run in Texas. Why was she there at all?
In mid-June, a giraffe named Gracie escaped from a ranch in Texas located about 100 miles west of San Antonio. ...
Tag: Future Perfect
Who gave AI companies the right to build the future?
In 1954, years after he led the project that created the atomic bomb, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was called to ...
You don’t need better boundaries. You need a better framework.
Editor’s note, June 21, 8 am ET: We’re bringing you some of our best-loved Your Mileage May Vary columns while ...
Why we don’t actually want a world without mosquitoes
I want you to close your eyes and imagine a perfect summer girls’ night out: It’s dusk and you assemble ...
10 reasons why the World Cup is the greatest sporting event on Earth
Most major sporting events do not live up to their names — literally, at least.Major League Baseball’s World Series apparently ...
10 things Elon Musk can — but probably won’t — do with $1 trillion
It’s official. Elon Musk is now the world’s first-ever trillionaire, after his rocket ship company SpaceX’s record-shattering $2 trillion debut ...
We’re not as helpless against dementia as we think
I turned 48 this week, which meant it was time for my annual physical. After the usual battery of questions ...
The next AI safety fight may actually be about DNA
AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how ...
Designer babies. Self-improving AI. Are we ready for either?
How do we know when the world has changed?On June 1, a team of scientists published a preprint scientific paper ...
We don’t know how the Ebola outbreak started. That’s a problem.
In just 10 days over the summer of 1854, 500 people died of cholera in the Soho neighborhood of London. ...
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