Tag: Society
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Human History ‘Will End When Men Become Gods’
Yuval Noah Harari, an Israeli historian and the internationally best-selling author of Sapiens, has a new book out about the future of humanity, called Homo Deus. He recently sat down with The WorldPost at a Berggruen Institute salon in Los Angeles. In the following interview, he discusses the new authority of “dataism” and godlike powers of science to redesign humanity and create…
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Race, Genes, and IQ
Critics of The Bell Curve have attacked every point in the book—except the most important one.
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The Age of Cultural Stagnation
Has tech plunged culture into an era devoid of originality and surprise?
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The Town That Went Feral
When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.
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The World Is a Prism, Not a Window
An Interview with Zoë Schlanger Pushing the limits of our Western scientific understanding of intelligence, climate journalist Zoë Schlanger speaks about her latest book, The Light Eaters, and how embracing plant consciousness upends the structures and hierarchies we’ve placed around living beings—ourselves included.
