We can never hope for a future with no problems. The solutions to problems create new problems, which in turn require new solutions, as WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explained recently.
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Can laboratories become more humane, or is it time to end animal research altogether?
“The promise of the Human Genome Project has finally arrived.”
Could we finally detect the elusive Unruh effect?
In a psychedelic state, the relationship between your “narrative” and “minimal” selves seems to transform in unique ways.
Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
New research shows psychedelics activate receptors inside brain cells that other compounds, like serotonin, cannot.
How technology could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.
Meet the power plant of the future.
The World Air Quality Index shows how clean your city’s air is, in real time.
The “money taboo” is not a single taboo, but rather an amalgamation of several smaller taboos tied to gender and socioeconomic class.
Carving out time for useful reflection is among the most valuable of leadership disciplines, explains “questionologist” Warren Berger.
Our society mostly emphasizes developing logical, procedural thinking skills, but this isn’t the only way to come up with great ideas.
In “Moral Ambition,” Dutch historian Rutger Bregman argues that all would benefit from a collective redefinition of success.
If you want to have foamy beer inside the comfort of your own home, you need to invest in a special nucleated glass.
What if you could just grow your own blood?
After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.
We asked our experts where they see the biggest blockers right now for more progress. Essentially, from their various areas of focus, what did they see as the largest impediments to driving progress forward around the world and how they would prioritize the necessary interventions? The answers were appropriately varied from the philosophical to the political to the technological.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.
One of the fundamental questions for those studying and advocating progress is around understanding what variables can move the needle for the type of progress that you might want to see in the world. It’s a key focus of the “progress studies” discipline and a question that has received increased attention from academics and public intellectuals in recent years.
Whether NASA likes it or not, humans eventually will be having space sex.
While GLP-1 agonists help people lose weight, different drugs could help them retain muscle at the same time.
Instead of giving the 239 suffering families and the public a true story, Netflix exploited a horrifying tragedy to push conspiracy theories.
The heart’s rhythms may play a larger role in shaping psychedelic experiences than previously thought.
Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
There’s such thing as a healthy sense of pride in oneself and one’s accomplishments.
The Industrial Revolution changed music forever, thanks to a combination of technological advances and clever entrepreneurs.
We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.