Future Perfect Archive
Archives for November 2019
It’s not all bad news — life expectancy and literacy are up, and global poverty is down.
From concrete to fuels, CO2 from the air can replace CO2 from the ground.
From pricing carbon to shifting diets, here’s what we need to prioritize now.
Animal abuse wasn’t illegal at the federal level. The PACT Act changed that.
Jeff Bezos gave an estimated 0.1 percent of his wealth in 2018.
GiveDirectly’s most ambitious evaluation to date is a gamechanger.
Divestment is one of the fastest-growing movements in the fight against climate change. It’s only getting started.
Meet “carbon capture and utilization,” which puts CO2 to work making valuable products.
Why women are 50 percent more likely to be misdiagnosed after a heart attack and 17 percent more likely to die in a car crash.
Male piglets usually have their testicles cut off without anesthetics. There’s a simple, pain-free alternative.
The plague is still a problem around the world — including in the US.
A psychologist claims that learning “untranslatable words” from other cultures may be a key to being happy. I experimented on myself to see whether it’s true.
Some of the consequences of thawed permafrost seem almost apocalyptic.
9 questions about biohacking you were too embarrassed to ask.
Almost 14,000 people’s faces were non-consensually scanned in Washington. Sound creepy? That’s the point.