Future Perfect Archive
Archives for January 2020
Will Biden win the nomination? Will Netanyahu hang on in Israel? Will global poverty see a decline? The staff of Future Perfect forecasts the year ahead.
Alcohol causes more deaths than all drug overdoses combined.
The growing literature on whether raising the minimum wage can save lives, explained.
A growing body of neuroscience research shows that meditation can make us better to each other.
The next big challenge for the plant-based meat industry is scale.
Donor gifts might do more harm than good.
So far, artificial intelligence’s development has outpaced regulation. Now regulation has to catch up.
$1,000 can raise a class’s test scores by as much as cutting class size by a third.
The number of kangaroos, koalas, and others killed keeps skyrocketing. Here’s where the eye-popping estimate comes from.
The plant-based Impossible Pork is here to replace the most eaten meat in the world.
Facebook will take down videos that have been highly altered by AI but will continue to allow controversial fake videos.
We were right about the US avoiding recession and wrong about Brexit.
Health authorities can’t figure out what’s causing the disease.
The world’s richest person reflects on taxing the rich.
Google has developed an impressive new algorithm for analyzing X-rays.