Are we living in the most important century?

This week: Elongated and Musk-free (#392)

Look for the helpers

+ Electric Planes, Getting Cars out of Cities, Giving Feedback on the Earth Simulation (#391)

guest curated

Special Delivery: First-Hand Food

🙋‍♀️ Guest curated by Hannah Ritchie, Head of Research at Our World in Data.

How to future-proof your life

+ Living through war, visualised. Why memorising random facts is useful. Non-existent food designed by artificial intelligence (#390)

Hear me out because it might just work

+ Ever-repeating history, When AI helps remember a dead sister, Europe's double standards (#389)

What if vaccines were contagious, too?

+ Effective global develpoment, demystifying disability, Existential risks, Paddington Bear framed for murder (#388)

In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things

Extended members-only version free to read for everyone!

Witness what needs to be witnessed

+ The big pandemic what-ifs, The peace Russia could afford, Spotify spam (#386)

What if Putin's gone?

An atlas of human suffering

+ Putin's mind, failed ideas, the best way to keep up with the war in Ukraine (#384)

The infamous letter

Extended version for everyone, including some advice on following the Russian invasion into Ukraine. (#383)

Why war?

+ Understanding Disability, Big Skills, Climate Optimism, 🐯 (#382)

How many micromorts are you comfortable with?

+ New World of War, Boris, Lithium (#381)

guest curated

Special Delivery: A climate issue

Guest curated by Prof. Kimberly Nicholas, sustainability scientist.

Andy Warhol's take on Cryptopunks and the value of everything

+ Pronouns, World Quiz, Radical Candor (#380)

What it means to lose, and to find

+ Artificial wombs, Explaining things, Mushroom Color Atlas (#379)

You are not entitled to their deaths

+ Putin, GPS, Hopepunk (#378)

guest curated

Special Delivery: How to Fail

🙋‍♀️ Guest curated by Eva Schulz, reporter and podcast host.

Numb numbers

+ Friendship, Waste Age, Levels of Hype (#377)

We need better stories

+ Books that got me thinking the most in 2021 (#376)

Asking questions

An issue about the future (#375)

The future is now (unfortunately)

+ Art, Omicron, Book Flood (#374)

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Best of 2021

The ultimate selection of more than 500 recommendations from this year.

Inside Europe's prisons in Africa

+ Uncertainty, Books, Fragile Masculinity (#373)

A city, ten times the size of NYC

+ Amazing Journeys, Future of Gender, Better Thinking (#372)