Welcome to the deeply bizarre now-now-soon

Plus: The value of moral ambition and why you're more likely to die on your birthday (#530)

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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)