If You’re Reading This, You’re Probably ‘WEIRD’
Here’s a little experiment. Take a second to think about how you would fill in the blank in this sentence: “I am _____.”If you’re anything like me, the first descriptors that come to mind are personal...
26 Maj 20231h 11min
The Teen Mental Health Crisis, Part 2
The data is clear: Levels of anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide have spiked for American teenagers over the last decade. Last Friday’s episode with the psychologist Jean Twenge sifted through ...
23 Maj 20231h 8min
The Teen Mental Health Crisis, Part 1
We’re in the midst of a serious teen mental health crisis. The number of teenagers and young adults with clinical depression more than doubled between 2011 and 2021. The suicide rate for teenagers nea...
19 Maj 20231h 20min
A Libertarian and I Debate the Debt Ceiling
On Jan. 19, the United States officially hit its debt limit. In response, the Treasury Department began using accounting maneuvers known as “extraordinary measures” to continue paying the government’s...
16 Maj 202356min
Best Of: A Weird, Wonderful Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the great living science fiction writers and one of the most astute observers of how planets look, feel and work. His Mars Trilogy imagined what it might be like for hum...
12 Maj 20231h 32min
Best Of: Why Adults Lose the ‘Beginner’s Mind’
Here’s a sobering thought: The older we get, the harder it is for us to learn, to question, to reimagine. This isn’t just habit hardening into dogma. It’s encoded into the way our brains change as we ...
9 Maj 20231h 1min
Best Of: How the Fed Is ‘Shaking the Entire System’
On Monday, First Republic Bank folded before being sold by regulators to JPMorgan Chase. At the time, it was the 14th largest bank in the U.S. and it is the second-largest American bank by assets to e...
5 Maj 20231h 25min
The Culture Creating A.I. Is Weird. Here’s Why That Matters.
In recent months, we’ve witnessed the rise of chatbots that can pass law and business school exams, artificial companions who’ve become best friends and lovers and music generators that produce remark...
2 Maj 20231h 5min
