"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." –Carl Sagan (born OTD in 1934)

Should Everyone Be Religious? Phil Zuckerman, in conversation between Ross Douthat, eloquently explains why we shouldn't. https://t.co/K3XuaZcC2j via @YouTube

@HolHumberstone @samgellaitry Listen to @_JoseGonzalez_ 's new single Pajarito, out now 🎧

If you are thinking about ditching health insurance all together but are worried about going completely naked in the case something big comes up, you should give CrowdHealth a look. Here is what our CrowdHealth members have paid on average/month over the last 12 months: $143

Democracies tend to have lower levels of corruption— What difference does it make when people can choose their leaders? One area where the right to vote for political leaders may matter is corruption. Democracy and corruption are hard to measure. One possible way to understand

Northern Transmissions Song of the Day is “Pajarito” by José González. The track is now available via Mute Records https://t.co/aixA3ndGJd #JoséGonzález #SongOfTheDay

I thoroughly believe in celebrating the small victories, so here is a tiny one. The percentage of humanity's energy system that is derived from fossil fuels, ticked down again in 2024 and is now technically at the lowest level since the 1960s, though fossil fuels still dominate.

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♻️ Giving Multiplier powers a virtuous circle of giving. Matching funds inspire donations to highly effective charities. In turn, those donations encourage others to provide more matching funds, keeping this "supply-and-demand cycle" going. When you give through Giving

Giving 10% of your income can be huge for others - but when you're lucky enough to earn a high-income country income or more - it doesn't need to block you from living a full and rich life

They call It Islamophobia we call it…👇 In Iran I was told if I don’t wear hijab, I get kicked out from school, I get jailed, lashes, beaten up & kicked out from my country. In the West I’m told, sharing these stories will cause Islamophobia. #LetUsTalk

In my humble opinion, launching fully autonomous AI researchers and letting AI self-improve is a type of digital gain-of-function research that's extremely reckless - what could possibly go wrong?

I created Grassy over the summer as a passion project to rank the golf courses I’ve played, kind of like Beli for golf.  Since then, Grassy has grown completely through word of mouth, now with over 1,000 posts and 500 courses ranked by golfers across the country. It’s been

The most violent stage of life is toddlerhood (a finding by the Canadian psychologist Richard Tremblay I cited in The Blank Slate and The Better Angels of Our Nature).

We don’t directly perceive the color of objects in the world. Instead, our brains infer color based on local context. [Link below.]

Maternal deaths have more than halved in the last forty years— A woman dying when she is giving birth to her child is one of the greatest tragedies imaginable. Every year, 260,000 women die from pregnancy-related causes. This number rose to 322,000 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media? Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is. To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles. In the

Most people are fairly optimistic that their lives will improve— If you ask people about whether the world as a whole is getting better or worse, most people say the latter. People are generally pessimistic about global or societal progress. But they are typically much more

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The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems. At OWID, we believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the

Hamas is succeeding & winning! They are compelling clans, families, and opposition into disarming and submitting to the terror, Islamist group's rule in the Gaza Strip. Instead of Hamas disarming, the group's opposition are. This is a disaster, a grave betrayal & miscalculation💔

In When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows..., I explain the famous theorem (50 years old next year) by Israeli mathematician and Nobel laureate Robert Aumann that rational people with the same background understanding of the world (they have the same priors) who share their

I’ve done dozens of debates, but this passage from @sapinker new book, When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows…, is why I much prefer “in conversation” as superior at finding truth, or at least common ground: "At the most refined levels of intellectual colloquy, in debating