Laura Pike Seeley
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Laura Pike Seeley
fear of crime is deeply embedded in American society, and positive news about falling crime rates won’t simply make that fear go away.
Abdallah Fayyad • Why do Americans always think crime is going up?
Ambivalent relationships are unpredictable. With a clear enemy, you put up a shield when you cross paths. With a frenemy, you never know whether Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde is going to show up.
Adam Grant • Opinion | Your Most Ambivalent Relationships Are the Most Toxic
While there’s no way to uninvent the nuclear bomb or the genetic engineering tools that can juice pathogens, catastrophic AI has yet to be created, meaning it’s one type of doom we have the ability to preemptively stop.
The case for slowing down AI
Cities around the world are proposing to replace the space taken up by parked cars with usable areas for people.
Why urban streets around the world are going car-free
one of the latest big theories in neuroscience says that humans are fundamentally creatures of prediction, and not only is creativity not at odds with that, but it actually goes hand in hand with improving our predictive power. Life itself, in this view, is one big process of creatively optimizing prediction as a survival strategy in a universe... See more
Oshan Jarow • Your mind needs chaos
Educating girls is seen as one of the most effective ways of fighting the climate emergency, with Project Drawdown listing “educating girls” at number six out of 100 of the top 100 activities that would halt rising emissions.
The powerful link between educating girls and fighting the climate crisis
It seems a radical idea, but as the climate crisis deepens, ‘sustainable design’ and ‘doing less harm’ are not enough to avert catastrophe – we have to find ways to replenish ecosystems while meeting our own needs.
Malaika Byng • Regenerative design: meet the creatives taking a rooting interest in learning from nature
Though we claim to value children as individuals, we also sort them into winners and losers. Ignoring this fact makes it harder to support student mental health.
Education Week • Want to Value Every Student? Stop Pretending Schools Don't Pick Winners and Losers (Opinion)
Numerous psychological studies have found that we seek out information that supports our pre-existing views – and avoid information that might contradict them.