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CRISPR: The Craziest Thing You’ve Never Heard of

HOW NEW GENETIC TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING BIOLOGY, HUMANS, AND THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

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Robert W. Duffy
Doom
Robert W. Duffy

My friend asked his politically precocious grandson what his generation called itself. Without skipping a beat, the boy said “Doom.”

Robert W. Duffy
A Victory Strategy
Robert W. Duffy
A Victory Strategy
Robert W. Duffy

Cheers for Cort VanOstran’s clear demand for equity. But should he have waited so long to emerge from his closet, or was a delay the sensible thing to do?

Robert W. Duffy
When People Don’t Matter
Brendan Lind
When People Don’t Matter
Brendan Lind

How the rise and fall of the American union and the experience of the American worker can teach us an important lesson

Brendan Lind
CRISPR: The Craziest Thing You’ve Never Heard of
Zach Lou
CRISPR: The Craziest Thing You’ve Never Heard of
Zach Lou

How a new genetic technology is changing biology, humans, and the world as we know it

Zach Lou
 
 

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Breaking Down Superintelligence
LeeAnn Felder-Heim
Breaking Down Superintelligence
LeeAnn Felder-Heim

Surviving Superintelligence: Part 1 of 4

LeeAnn Felder-Heim
New Technologies Feed the Flames of Fake News
LeeAnn Felder-Heim
New Technologies Feed the Flames of Fake News
LeeAnn Felder-Heim

Fake news is getting a whole lot more sophisticated.

LeeAnn Felder-Heim
Ground Rules for Discussing Technological Advance: Part 1 of 4
LeeAnn Felder-Heim
Ground Rules for Discussing Technological Advance: Part 1 of 4
LeeAnn Felder-Heim

An honest and critical look at the common assumptions made in discussions about new technologies

LeeAnn Felder-Heim
Automation Reworked
Zach Lou
Automation Reworked
Zach Lou

Rethinking the loss of jobs

Zach Lou
Kate
When People Don’t Matter
Brendan Lind
When People Don’t Matter
Brendan Lind

How the rise and fall of the American union and the experience of the American worker can teach us an important lesson

Brendan Lind
Universal Basic Income, Part 2 of 3
Zach Lou
Universal Basic Income, Part 2 of 3
Zach Lou

The case for a universal basic income

Zach Lou
Universal Basic Income, Part 1 of 3
Zach Lou
Universal Basic Income, Part 1 of 3
Zach Lou

A history of the idea of a basic income and what we know about how it works

Zach Lou
Understanding a New Kind of Economy in St. Louis
Zach Lou
Understanding a New Kind of Economy in St. Louis
Zach Lou

A vision without a plan, and one person’s quest to build a solidarity economy

Zach Lou