The International Astronomical Union, who apparently have a lot of time on their hands, have stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. Pluto is a planet – get over it.
As I watched yet another episode of Severance, I found myself unsettled—not just by its eerie world but by how familiar it felt. Lumon Industries is no ordinary company; it is a cathedral cloaked in fluorescent lights. Its founder, Kier Eagan, looms like a prophet whose words are scripture,
A recent article from Bloomberg—AI Will Upend a Basic Assumption About How Companies Are Organized by Azeem Azhar—is like many in a long string of articles that have pumped up the disruption and transformation being brought on by artificial intelligence. Azhar also wrote the 2021 Financial Times Best
Our ancestors weren't slouches. They cracked mathematical mysteries and built mind-bending devices that sometimes vanished from human memory, only to be reinvented millennia later.
The United States entered the 1990s with strong economic momentum, only to witness a gradual erosion of public trust in institutions, the rise of anti-government extremism, and the mainstreaming of conspiratorial thinking. I look at the interconnected events, policies, and cultural shifts that transformed the nation's trajectory over