Lonely Hearts – Nadia Eghbal

By contrast, authors like Murakami and Kundera tell the tale in reverse. Their heroes start out with their beloved right … More

Oracles and models: ancient and modern ways of telling the future

We also need to take account of what is known about how individuals react to new and challenging information. For … More

All affluent countries have been producing substantially more food than could be possibly eaten, even by gluttonous populations. Food waste … More

Imagine what happens as more and more people start to ask themselves if they want to win by hacking bad … More

I remember my first awareness of mortality as a child in Bulgaria. I was nine and my father was relaying … More

I hope with this book to convince you that data are profoundly dumb… If causation cannot be reduced to correlation, … More

I spent over 25 hours building a cut-down version of Sapiens. The goal? Future-me should be happy to read this … More

AI will bring many wonders. It may also destabilize everything from nuclear détente to human friendships. We need to think … More

Kim Ung-yong was a child prodigy in South Korea. Now a civil engineer in his 50s, he feels he was … More