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Picture this: You’re sitting in a courtroom, and the defendant in front of you is a major insurance company. The charge? Denying a life-saving claim that led to devastating consequences for someone’s health. The prosecutor […]

By Adam Dorr For over four decades, the obesity epidemic in the United States seemed intractable. Despite massive public health campaigns, endless lifestyle advice, and increasingly strident moral condemnation of overweight individuals, obesity rates climbed […]

Originally posted here. Sarah Savory Between Thought and Action: The Power Lies in Our Decisions A Journey from Reductionism to Holism Humans, along with all other tool-using animals, share an inherited decision-making process that predisposes […]

Courtesy of Savory Global Every day the news includes stories about the massive loss of biodiversity occurring globally and of the destruction related to climate change. Most people view these as separate problems, but they are […]

By Adam Dorr, Rethink X “AI is not going to replace human beings. It will never replace human beings.” “AI is just a productivity tool. It increases the productivity of the worker.” “AI will create […]

Musings on Physics and Education By Chiara Marletto At birth, we set out on a journey to understand the Universe. As we orbit around the sun, we sense, feel, taste, and observe the vast collection […]

Globalization, in theory, means the free flow of goods, money, and ideas around the world. In practice, its rules are set to benefit powerful nations like the United States. Over the last 75 years, the […]

After 50 years of failed environmental diplomacy, we need to ask the obvious question: “Who owns the world?”   Half a century ago, 122 countries met in Stockholm for the first UN Conference on the […]

Transforming from Extraction and Exploitation to Collaboration and Co-Creation “We are witnessing the emergence of a suite of new technologies that have the potential to revolutionize our production system. This new system, enabled by these […]

Living Under the Law of Unintended consequences Bob is a legendary music producer. He’s worked with the likes of Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd, Andrea Bocelli, who actually helped produce his very first album, Lou Reed, […]