Is AI progress slowing down?
Last month, tech outlet The Information reported that OpenAI and its competitors are switching strategies as the rate of improvement ...
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Why 597 million chickens go missing from America’s food supply each year
America’s favorite animal to eat — the chicken — has also become its most expendable: In 2021, around 556 million ...
A surprise solar boom reveals a fatal flaw in our climate change projections
When the satellites zoomed in, you could see the panels gleaming from space. Pairing images taken miles above the Earth ...
How did Elphaba become wicked? There’s a hidden message people keep missing.
Everyone wants to hold space for “Defying Gravity,” the powerhouse anthem from Wicked, the Broadway musical-turned-movie blockbuster. But behind the ...
Should we put pig organs in humans? We asked an ethicist.
In 2022, surgeons transplanted the first genetically engineered pig heart into a human. Fifty-seven-year-old David Bennett, a patient with heart ...
The case for earning lots of money — and giving lots of it away
There aren’t too many people openly calling themselves effective altruists these days. You can mostly give thanks to convicted felon ...
Americans are eating less meat. And more meat. How?
In recent decades, the average American has steadily increased their consumption of meat, milk, and eggs, to a staggering 224 ...
Trump didn’t gut foreign aid last time. This time could be different.
On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance did not sound like guys likely to support ...
I saw the Hurricane Helene response up close. This is how disaster relief actually works.
The storm damage in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene swept through on September 27 was immense. More than 1,000 ...
An undercover investigation reveals the deception of “humane”-certified farms
An amazing majority of People say they’re involved in regards to the remedy of animals raised for meat, and lots ...
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