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Future Perfect

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The doomers are wrong about humanity’s future — and its past

By Bryan Walsh

The Highlight

The case for slowing down AI

By Sigal Samuel

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Your brain may not be private much longer

By Sigal Samuel

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Pescetarians are responsible for many more animal deaths than regular meat eaters

By Garrison Lovely

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The brewing war over who goes hungry in America — and how to feed them

By Kenny Torrella

What would it mean to treat guns the way we treat cars?

By Muizz Akhtar March 27

How to save America’s public transit systems from a doom spiral

By David Zipper March 27

If your AI model is going to sell, it has to be safe

By Haydn Belfield March 25

Native American histories show rebuilding is possible — and necessary — after catastrophe

By B.L. Blanchard March 24

The Highlight

How will we feed Earth’s rising population? Ask the Dutch.

The Netherlands’ hyper-efficient food system is both a triumph and a cautionary tale.

By Kenny Torrella March 23

Inside the Italian villa that launched some of the world’s great philanthropic programs

By Bryan Walsh March 22

Why the news is so negative — and what we can do about it

By Dylan Matthews March 22

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By Vox Staff October 15, 2018

Humans finally figured out how to make it rain

By Christina Thornell August 3, 2022

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The Future of Meat

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Future Perfect, explained

By Dylan Matthews October 15, 2018

How to eat less meat: A practical guide

By Allison Rockey and Kenny Torrella January 3, 2022

We need the right kind of climate optimism

By Hannah Ritchie March 21

The fight against factory farming is winning criminal trials

By Marina Bolotnikova March 21

The Highlight

Against doomerism

It’s boom times for doom times but there’s plenty of reason to be optimistic that the future will be better — if we make it so.

By Bryan Walsh March 20

Can society adjust at the speed of artificial intelligence?

By Kelsey Piper March 18

Save the “massive, living, beautiful, breathing, majestic boxes of carbon” known as whales

By Rachel DuRose March 18

The key to Covid’s origin lies in Beijing, not Wuhan

By Bryan Walsh March 18

Why 70 percent of the world’s maternal deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa

By Rachel DuRose March 17

A bioethics professor weighs in on the Last of Us finale

By Oshan Jarow March 17

The Highlight

The very cute, totally disturbing tale of the American “it” dog

How the quest to own the nation’s most popular, most Instagram-worthy pup has bred a world of problems.

By Tove K. Danovich March 16

If you’re not using ChatGPT for your writing, you’re probably making a mistake

By Dylan Matthews March 14

Why even brilliant scholars misunderstand poverty in America

By Dylan Matthews March 10

The Covid mask wars have left us unprepared for the next pandemic

By Kelsey Piper March 10

There’s no libertarian approach to preventing the end of the world

By Haydn Belfield March 7

How the first chatbot predicted the dangers of AI more than 50 years ago

By Oshan Jarow March 5

We can overcome vaccine hesitancy. Just look at the HPV shot.

By Rachel DuRose March 4

Elon Musk thinks we’re close to solving AI. That doesn’t make it true.

By Gary Marcus March 3

OpenAI wants to build systems smarter than us

By Kelsey Piper March 1

The big, neglected problem that should be Biden’s top priority

By Rachel M. Cohen March 1

The new scientific review on masks and Covid isn’t what you think

By Kelsey Piper February 22

The other long Covid: The damage done to a generation of schoolchildren

By Bryan Walsh February 21

Why effective altruism struggles on sexual misconduct

By Kelsey Piper February 15

10 years ago, we were turning nuclear bombs into nuclear energy. We can do it again.

By Irina Wang February 14

Why earthquakes are deadlier depending on where you live

By Rachel DuRose February 13

A key to consciousness could lie in “perceptual diversity”

By Oshan Jarow February 11

How a shipping error 100 years ago launched the $30 billion chicken industry

By Kenny Torrella February 10

How to go car-free — or car-light — in Middle America

By Angie Schmitt February 9