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Job automation will need to strike a delicate balance — we want enough to make our lives more comfortable, but no more than that.rn
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No human gets everything they want in life, as Ariel Levy discovered in the worst possible way.
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The story of the world's most successful people is really only half told.
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Cut funding to the NEA and PBS? It would be incredibly costly to cut cultural spending.
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What's it like to be a minority in America? To find out, read a book written by one.
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Skepticism has a place, but it's optimists who decide the future, says Kevin Kelly.
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Science makes the heart grow fonder. Want proof? Just watch Bill Nye as he remembers time spent with the legendary cosmologist Carl Sagan.
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In what Tristan Harris calls a "race to the bottom of the brain stem," media companies and advertisers will do almost anything to keep your eyes locked where they want them.
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When the president gets his primary information from talking heads on cable TV rather than intelligence briefings, we have a problem.
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Will we ever have a Theory of Everything? Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss isn't sure that's the right question to be asking.
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There's one whopper out there that people rarely acknowledge, but self-confessed "cynical libertarian" Dave Barry isn't shying away.
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From olde English dogs, to immoral women, to weak men, to irritating women, to its prideful reclaiming, to ownership over a woman (there's a theme here), the word "b*tch" has a long and fascinating history, and it's all stored in the archives of the Merriam-Webster lexicography department.
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Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery, or a breach of intellectual property? That depends which continent you're on, says Gish Jen.
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Isaac Lidsky says losing his sight by the age of 25 has been the true gift of his life. Why? It showed him the most profound of all truths about being a human being.
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Whether it's palm reading, climate denial, or straight-up illuminati finger pointing, people all around us – and including us – have world views that are inconsistent with evidence.
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There's a place Americans feel they can do anything, and it's not Las Vegas.
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You really do have to know when to hold 'em, and know when to fold 'em, and most of the time trusting your gut is a copout, says poker champion Liv Boeree.
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Philosopher Daniel Dennett believes AI should never become conscious — and no, it's not because of the robopocalypse.
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Get ready for a decade of scientific revelations. Thanks to gravity waves, we have a completely new way to explore the universe.
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Do you retreat from your ambitions out of fear? Self-preservation isn't doing you any favors, says Kyle Maynard. Confront your excuses and live more honestly.