Apr 19
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In an ideal world, virtual reality would be just like regular reality, except without regular reality’s annoying…
Apr 12
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If you would like to know what it feels like to die, while at the same time continuing to live, you have a number of…
Apr 5
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The majority of scientists are, I’d wager, not particularly evil. Most just want to understand plants, or the Moon,…
Mar 22
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Bodies are machines designed to remind you of death, to semi-continuously blare out the fact of your mortality,…
Mar 15
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Scientists, or at least their wild-haired fictional counterparts, promised us time travel and still have not…
Mar 8
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It is easy to be pessimistic about the future. It is also easy to scientifically verify that pessimism through…
Mar 1
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Once a day, at least, I’ll tear up listening to music. Just a drop or two, or not even a drop, just a pre-cry…
Feb 22
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Feb 15
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I’m writing this on a Tuesday, at 2:26 p.m. Minutes ago, it was 9 a.m., or so it feels; back then, I was enjoying…
Jan 25
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Earlier this month, a kind of chirping, rainforest-y sound sprung up in my apartment. It came from my roommate’s…
Jan 18
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Among the recreational drugs currently entering the psychiatric mainstream (MDMA, LSD, etc.), ketamine is something…
Jan 11
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It’s easy to attribute omnipotence to one’s devices. I’d hate to know what my iPhone knows about me. That said,…
Jan 4
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Earlier this year, a research team made waves by suggesting that we should disseminate Earth’s microbes on Mars in a…
Dec 28
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At what passes for its best, technology would seem equipped to provide a slight relief from tedium/despair, or a…
Dec 21
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Is your body perfectly toned? Are your workdays marathons of effortless achievement? Do your relationships proceed…
Dec 7
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Spend enough time desperately googling cures for “brain fog” and “pathological procrastination” and you’re likely to…
Nov 30
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To be alive is to feel fucking terrible, if not all then at least some of the time. Headaches, nausea, mysterious…
Nov 23
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When you’re a journalist or club promoter or financier, fraud is always a gamble—you might be publicly disgraced and…
Nov 16
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People say other people’s dreams are boring, but what if the problem is technology? As a sense-conveying device,…
Nov 9
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I am going to answer this one right here in the intro: no, you can’t. In 2020, it is hard to just to go to the…