How to write a joke
Plus: Meet the heroes keeping global progress alive and learn in what specific way you are annoying. (#552)
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Fuck hope. What's the strategy?
Also, the world is turned upside down. (#551)
A breath of fresh air
Plus: World maps, screen time, organ donations. (#550)
Different Language, Different AI?
Plus: the story of arguably one of the most recognisable sound designs of our time (#549)
Games are the real thing
Plus: What to do with your hard-won, useless knowledge (#548)
Read this before you die
Plus: How one snail inspired two novels on two continents. (#547)
Economics, but fun
Plus: a once in a lifetime experience. (#546)
Reasons for Hope
You're here for a reason. Find the reason. And do your bit. (#545)
Why we need more death rays
Plus: It's my lucky week! (#544)
Free* Speech
Plus the electrotech revolution and the process of making good decisions by eliminating bad ones (#543)
Gotta love them facts
And why geopolitics now drives climate action. (#542)
8 billion victims
Why Murphy's Law actually helps you prevent bad things from happening. (#541)
Looking ahead to the year 20202025
Plus: Which matters more, a first or last impression? (#540)
Small change, big impact
Plus: the horse farm turned global vaccine supplier. (#539)
Where the end is real
Plus: How AI ruins decision making and why you should talk to former friends. (#538)
The Enshittification of American Power
Plus: Alien life and the last words of a dying glacier (#537)
The fire of human aspiration
Plus: Feminist exhaustion, the invention of the wheel and behind the scenes with an intimacy coördinator (#536)
See the dark world
+ Fun new laws to create chaos, and how we'll lose control of AI (#535)
4.5 Million Children
Plus: Why we need more taste and less cynicism (#534)
44 books curious minds wished they'd discovered sooner
Special books issue, curated by you.
The Fascist Playbook
Plus: 30 minutes with a stranger and how artificial intelligence will make us better humans (#533)
Yet weirdly, life goes on
Plus: Questions worth asking in uncertain times. (#532)
An ode to craft
Plus: The power of empathy and the tragedy of prevention (#531)
Special Books Edition
What's a book you wished you discovered sooner?