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Many of us are living in a dystopian future, but realizing that fact and making changes to fix it are much more difficult than it sounds.
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Organized skepticism was once covered in every major publication around the world. Why did it seemingly vanish overnight? And what damage did its implosion leave behind?
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A far right militia butting into wildfire cleanup efforts is a dark sign of things to come if we don’t fight the climate crisis.
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Today the world seems like it’s suddenly unraveling. But experts have been warning us this day would come for many decades.
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Incels may have popularized the idea of being blackpilled, but now existential surrender is the dangerous new hotness in all corners of social media.
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A massively profitable global industry got that way by showing people only what they already believe. Now we’re dealing with the fallout.
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Today’s typical working hours are a result of politics, compromise, and ideology. Now, some experts are finally asking what science says is the perfect work week, and why.
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Unless we tackle the cultural and mental health issues fueling populist train wrecks across the West, any political victory against them will only be temporary.
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When populists, demagogues, and authoritarians insist on attacking experts for trying to fix the problems their dogmas created, the consequences can destroy entire nations.
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It turns out that polls and predictions of who'll win, along with fake news appealing to our cognitive dissonances, are changing outcomes of elections before we even have them.