politics AI says America going full dystopia, suggests starting Hunger Games training now Ellsworth Toohey

carbon emissions New research shows plants absorb 31% more carbon dioxide than previously thought Ellsworth Toohey

openai Already $17.9 billion in, Sam Altman confident good things are coming from OpenAI Jason Weisberger

climate Interactive Koppen climate map Rob Beschizza

Science Physicist Sean Carroll and the biggest ideas in the universe Ruben Bolling

music What happens when you use music reviews as prompts for AI generated music? Thom Dunn

books Usborne Book of the Future back in print Rob Beschizza

music The ongoing legacies of The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Elías Villoro

florida The Simpsons predicted the Florida "David" debacle Jennifer Sandlin

Space NASA monitoring asteroid with 1 in 625 chance of hitting Earth on Valentine's Day 2046 Rob Beschizza

predictions Predictions made in 1923 about 2023 Rusty Blazenhoff

climate change Water futures are "going to be ugly" Elías Villoro

amusements Probable is a fun website that lets users make predictions on a virtual coin flip Popkin

COVID-19 GPT-3 is able to accurately predict a lot about COVID-19 Clive Thompson

tech Venture capitalists launch Future, an "optimistic" tech site Rob Beschizza

pseudoscience Place telepathic bets with "Uber for psychics" Thom Dunn

qanon How to make money betting against Qanon Mark Frauenfelder

writing Rules for Predicting the Future, according to Octavia Butler Thom Dunn

noads Channeling Timothy Leary on the Centennial of his Birth, October 22, 2020 Boing Boing

the illusion of explanatory depth What do drawings of memory bikes have to do with know-it-alls? Mark Frauenfelder