Watch the poison work
Plus: our ethical duty to grasp large numbers. (#579)
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Worse on purpose
Plus: How to build a climate friendly city and how to catch an arsonist. (#578)
Move like a king
Plus: Who wins the World Cup when not football decides? (#577)
Not normal
Plus: possibly the best final sentence of an article this year (#576)
26 books that moved curious minds to action
The annual books issue, curated by you.
You should waste more time.
Plus: An wake-up call. (#575)
Mental Models for the AI Age
Plus: Let's make «patient like a penguin» a thing. (#574)
What's a book that moved you to action?
Plus: The Baguette Index and the Ethiopian running secret. (#573)
Honey, I shrunk the planet
Plus: Ancient life in lakes under Antarctic ice. (#572)
The internet needs more benches
Plus: The history of the spreadsheet, and how we're failing the Hantavirus test (#571)
Don't edit the soul by hand
Plus: The search for instant coffee and a universal clock. (#570)
Wonder and curiosity on full display
Guess who's back in your inbox 😁 (#569)
What you celebrate becomes what you are
Happy Map, Kill Chain, and The Art of Noticing (#568)
The right way to be right
Plus: How and why AI might kill us all. (#567)
Herstory Lessons
Plus: Where the f*** are we? (#566)
Why attack Iran?
Plus: A game to test if you can still outsmart the machine (#565)
Why is the sky blue?
And: The Orality Theory of Everything (#564)
Something big is happening
Plus: Why ICE needs masks, and why the housewife is recent invention (#563)
Are you game?
Understanding predictions markets and distilling leadership lessons from parenting advice. (#562)
The beautiful, collapse-aware mind
Plus: Why a lot of population numbers are fake (#561)
What possibly could go wrong
Plus: Black swans and why life appears better in the past (#560)
How to navigate a rapidly changing world
«The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything» (#559)
Trust issues
The kids are alright (in Finland) and spending the city budget (in Paris) (#558)
Alarmist you said?
Plus: All the great news the headlines missed in 2025 (#557)