For all of our accumulated knowledge, for all our telescopes that pierce the veil of time and all our equations that describe the dance of atoms, modern science is haunted. We are haunted by a presence so vast it dictates…
For the last two years, the AI revolution has been a consumer-facing spectacle. We have been mesmerized by ChatGPT writing poetry, Midjourney creating art, and large language models (LLMs) passing the bar exam. This spectacular, public-facing "creator" boom has defined…
For the entire history of medicine, its most fundamental rule has been immutable: to heal a patient, you must be in the room. From the first shamanistic rituals to the most advanced open-heart surgeries, the physical co-location of healer and…
It began as a ripple of collective, low-grade panic. Sometime on a Monday, the digital assistants we had begun to treat as extensions of our own minds—our copilots, our research aides, our creative muses—simply went silent. Reports flooded social media:…
For the past two years, the conversation about AI has been dominated by what happens on a screen. We’ve obsessed over large language models (LLMs) writing essays, diffusion models creating art, and AI copilots summarizing our meetings. The entire revolution,…
The vision for Artemis is one of the grandest ambitions in human history. It is not just a mission to leave footprints and flags, but to build a permanent, sustainable human presence on the Moon. It's a multi-decade, multi-billion-dollar program…
It started, as it always does, with a flicker. First, your work Slack or Teams chat couldn't connect. Then, the internal database you needed to access spun endlessly. Annoyed, you took a break, only to find your smart speaker was…
For the better part of three years, opening the Instagram app has felt like an exercise in cognitive dissonance. You opened it to see photos of your friends, your family, or your niche hobbies. Instead, you were met with a…
We tell ourselves a comforting story about lead. We tell ourselves it’s a problem solved—a ghost of a dirtier, more industrial past. We celebrate the great public health victories of the 20th century: the banning of lead from gasoline in…
The vision for Artemis is one of the grandest ambitions in human history. It is not just a mission to leave footprints and flags, but to build a permanent, sustainable human presence on the Moon. It's a multi-decade, multi-billion-dollar program…
