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How AI Could Help Cure Pancreatic Cancer
1+ hour, 22+ min ago (483+ words) Pancreatic cancer kills nearly more than 50, 000 Americans each year. By the end of the decade, it may be the single most lethal cancer in the country. Millions of people around the world have, like me, lost family and friends to…...
How American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (545+ words) Today's article was written with Aziz Sunderji, an economic analyst and data whiz who writes at Home Economics. The working-husband-and-housewife norm is not a biological inscription in our genes. It is an invention of the Industrial Revolution. And it is…...
How "Zombie Flow" Took Over Culture
4+ week, 1+ hour ago (458+ words) Today you might hear self-help gurus talk about flow so constantly that the monosyllable has become a clich" without a clear definition. Csikszentmihalyi summed it up this way: The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is…...
Why 'Cost Disease' Is the Secret Force Behind America's Toxic Solitude
1+ mon, 1+ hour ago (805+ words) I have written a lot about the American crisis of solitude and how it connects to technology, politics, religion, and well-being. What I haven't explored as much is the economic origins of the phenomenon. That's the subject of today's guest…...
Three Reasons to Be a Parent
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (267+ words) One month after my first daughter was born, a younger friend from work asked me to explain what parenthood was like. I can't do that, I said. Wisely, she appealed to my vanity, reminding me that my professional identity was…...
Everything Is Television
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (386+ words) A spooky convergence is happening in media. Everything that is not already television is turning into television. Three examples: When I read the Meta filing, I had been thinking about something very different: the future of my podcast, Plain English....
Self-Driving Cars Are Miracle Drugs. (Plus: Is the Youth Cancer Epidemic a Myth?)
7+ mon, 2+ day ago (499+ words) Welcome back to The Sunday Morning Post. The goal of TSMP is that every post violates the rules of the news cycle by sharing stories from science, health, and history that will be as relevant in 10 years as in 10 hours....
Dave Paola on Derek Thompson
8+ mon, 18+ hour ago (65+ words) What is the common man to do with his money in such an environment? Funny enough, it just reached ATH this week. I wonder what the market is trying to tell us" I would suggest farmland and learn the ability…...
Marcus Seldon on Derek Thompson
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (159+ words) I'm not closed to the idea that AI is displacing some young workers, but I also see out of touch executives and invest" I'm not sure why 10% of junior sales and marketing was laid off at a stroke and rehired…...
The Looming Social Crisis of AI Friends and Chatbot Therapists
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (617+ words) As my conversation in Chapel Hill continued, however, we agreed there is one big hang-up with Chat GPT when it assumes the role of a therapist. The chatbot is a total suck up. I recalled our conversation recently when reading…...