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A Dog’s Life Could Hold the Key to Anti-Aging Drugs for Humans
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To Save the Planet, Start Digging
Environmentalist Jamie Beard has been pushing her vision to tap into geothermal energy—by working with Big…
Is a Parking-Free Future Possible?
Henry Grabar, author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, talks about the blunders of…
What Weight Watchers Offers That Ozempic Can’t
We talk with Sima Sistani, the CEO of Weight Watchers, about applying her previous careers in…
There Will Never Be Another Twitter
We talk to media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public…
Why Fake Drake and AI-Generated Music Are Here to Stay
We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of “The Pitchfork Review,”…
How Humanity Can Avoid an AI Takeover
We talk to MIT professor Daron Acemoglu about his book Power and Progress and unpack why…