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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...