Future Perfect Archive
Archives for June 2024
NYC’s very good plan to fix traffic fell victim to a very bad argument. And it’s not just New York.
Already the world’s worst displacement crisis, new battlefronts in Sudan could unleash ethnic violence and genocide.
A new study reveals elephants are more like humans than we realized. What does that mean for the movement for their rights?
A Q&A with Jonathan Haidt on smartphones, kids today, and what the skeptics get wrong about his argument.
Both skeptics and boosters are too sure of themselves.
Mindfulness is one thing. Jhāna meditation is stranger, stronger, and going mainstream.
“I’m scared. I’d be crazy not to be,” one former employee tells Vox.
Musician FKA twigs made a digital clone of herself. Is this the future of celebrity?
MDMA looked like it was on a fast track for PTSD treatment. Now, an FDA committee is advising otherwise.
A new study finds that combating malaria, TB, and HIV pays for itself 405 times over.
House Republicans are working to make America’s factory farms even crueler.
Obesity will go down, electric cars will go up, and a nuclear bomb might just fall.
From drones to social media, the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan was a preview of Ukraine and the conflicts to come.