Many capabilities contribute to effective change leadership, but four stand out as vitally important at a macro level.
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The modern attention economy hijacks our ability to focus, but an ancient technique offers a means to get it back.
We are generally taught that there is an arc of history — an inevitable path of progress that leads to modern society. Maybe it isn’t true.
Tighten your ‘thopter seatbelts and get those worm-hooks ready: we’re going to unpack the hype surrounding Dune, both the book and the movie.
A philosophical debate spanning creation, free will, and a sneaky teapot.
Hindsight can cloud our predictive abilities but big data can de-mist forecasting — now AI is sharpening that focus.
From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.
We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.
Space weather poses a tremendous threat to all satellites, knocking all computer systems offline. Is that a recipe for Kessler syndrome?
Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
Empty, intergalactic space is just 2.725 K: not even three degrees above absolute zero. But the Boomerang Nebula is even colder.
From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.
In determining what qualifies as solid science, controversy is inevitable.
Cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.
In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?
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 […]
Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.
Zombies aren’t a modern-day obsession. Throughout history, fear of the undead led to bizarre burial rituals all over the world.
It’s knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it’s not magic that powers AI though; it’s just math and data.
Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?
In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.
It is all too easy for humans to fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient or intelligent.
Sex can be a death trap even for modern toad and frog species.
Wireless charging isn’t just for phones and laptops. It could also power medical devices like heart implants.
A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.
There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our Standard Model of cosmology into question. Here’s what they really mean.
After 10,000 years of civilization, have we figured out what virtue is?
We’ll never be able to extract any information about what’s inside a black hole’s event horizon. Here’s why a singularity is inevitable.
There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here’s how NASA will at last discover and measure them.
To do more, it sometimes pays to do nothing at all.