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The beginning of the end of wheelchairs

Jul 17, 2024

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Sarah de Lagarde had her right arm amputated after getting run over by a train. Thanks to her newly fitted artificial intelligence (AI)...

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A huge win for rational optimists everywhere

Jul 15, 2024

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America’s largest solar farm would’ve produced enough energy to power 80,000 homes near Las Vegas. But construction was halted when...

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How to identify an environmental wingnut

Jul 2, 2024

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The Irish government had me write a postcard to Britain’s prime minister when I was in elementary school. They used “the children” to...

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A dad’s guide to the disruption of college

Jun 28, 2024

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I first wrote about the cancer growing in America’s universities five years ago. Surprising even myself, the research I did at the time...

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Grandpa, what was cancer?

Jun 27, 2024

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Can you imagine how difficult it is to be deaf? Put yourself in the shoes of a mom or dad with a deaf child. They might struggle to make...

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Why should you be a Rational Optimist?

Jun 27, 2024

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Becoming a Rational Optimist is good for your mental and physical health, wealth, family, and country, and you shouldn’t feel guilty or...

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Neuralink transformed his life

Jun 25, 2024

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Nobody is opening my skull. But I’m not paralyzed from the neck down, like Noland Arbaugh has been ever since suffering a freak spinal cord

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