Michael Pollan’s hunt for consciousness
We have it. Plants have it. Machines may soon have it. Why do they all need one?
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Utopian visions of an internationalist future ring hollow in dystopian times
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Gen Z women already know their issues. They want solutions
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Gavin Newsom knows he’s shallow
The California governor is honest about his own ambitions
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How we became obsessed with the human face
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Nintendo: the company that consoled the world
The gaming corporation succeeded by shunning the slaughter and darkness that drives so many franchises
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How to turn breast milk into a cash cow
The market for erotic lactation, IVF and surrogacy is a morally complex world of desperation and exploitation
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