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Last Thursday, I took my son to the Rose Center for Earth and Space at New York’s Museum of Natural History. In the Hayden Planetarium, we watched a...
Lee Kuan Yew, the iron-willed founder of modern Singapore, was once asked what the most important invention of the 20th century was. He didn’t say...
Perhaps the oldest, most pernicious form of human bias is that of men toward women. It often started at the moment of birth. In ancient Athens, at a...
On November 4, 2003, a doctor gave Jon Gluck some of the worst news imaginable: He had cancer — one that later tests would reveal as multiple...
Here’s a selection of recent headlines about artificial intelligence, picked more or less at random: For some recent graduates, the AI job...
In 1965, then-French finance minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing came up with the “mot juste” for describing the way that the supremacy of the...
Close your eyes and think of the word “summer.” What comes to mind? Is it long days at the beach, a drink in one hand and a book in the other,...
The first observance of what came to be known as Memorial Day was on May 30, 1868, when a Civil War general called on Americans to commemorate the...
The astounding drop in violent crime that began in the 1990s and extended through the mid-2010s is one of the most important — and most...
In 2020 and 2021, before I came to Vox, I worked as the future correspondent at Axios — yes, that was the actual job title — and I found myself...
After more than a century of steady, upward climb, US life expectancy hit 78.9 years in 2015. Since then, it’s been mostly downhill. US life...
I have some bad news: You are almost certainly a worse driver than you think you are. Humans drive distracted. They drive drowsy. They drive angry....
A version of this story originally appeared in the Good News newsletter. Sign up here! Any time I try to convince skeptical people that the world...
A version of this story originally appeared in the Good News newsletter. Sign up here! Back in 2022, sunglasses-wearing U2 frontman and rock star...
In Ezra Klein and Derk Thompson’s new book Abundance — which maybe you’ve heard of — they tell the story of Katalin Karikó, the Hungarian...
Anyone who has watched a loved one descend into the fog of dementia knows the tremendous toll that neurodegenerative diseases of aging can exact. ...
I was an English major in college, and my favorite poet was the first-generation Romantic William Wordsworth. For one thing, there’s the name, the...
If you’re anything like me — a policy dork who spends too much time on X — you’ve been unable to escape discussion of a new book called...
For most people, the Covid-19 pandemic, which officially began five years ago this month, marked their first encounter with case counts and N-95 masks...
In 2012, astronaut Ron Garan did an AMA on Reddit. In between questions about aliens (he didn’t see any in space) and where his coffee came from...
There’s a thought experiment that has taken on almost mythic status among a certain group of technologists: If you build an artificial intelligence...
Welcome to the first edition of Good News, the weekly newsletter dedicated to covering the remarkable, optimistic things happening all around us. Now,...
Here’s a very naive and idealistic account of how companies train their AI models: They want to create the most useful and powerful model possible,...
On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump shocked the world with a proposal that was, even by his standards, totally out of the blue: that all...
On Sunday afternoon, I went to the National Football Conference championship game at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. At one point early in...
Why do disasters happen? The ancient Greeks had an all-purpose explanation, as I’ve been learning from my Greek myth-mad 7-year-old son: the gods....
Vox reader Dov Stein asks: Why do people think the past was so much better when so many things have drastically improved? That’s an excellent...
Making predictions is a tricky business, and here at Future Perfect, we don’t pretend to have a crystal ball. But we do think there’s real...
The media does not give you an accurate picture of the world. This isn’t to say that we’re not reporting the truth or that we’re making facts up....
It’s that time of year. As Future Perfect has in the past, we’re rounding up our most read stories of the year. This little trip down memory lane...
If, like me, you live in the Northeast, you’ve likely found it impossible to escape the story of the month. No, not the killing of a major...