documentary A short documentary from 1968 shows first computer animation of people Mark Frauenfelder

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psychology How to think positively and why it's so hard to do that David Pescovitz

Science Optimists live longer David Pescovitz

Science Happy birthday, Carl Sagan. Wish you were here. David Pescovitz

optimism Watch Bill Gates play "How much does the world suck?" Caroline Siede

podcasts Erik Davis's Expanding Mind podcast: the Voyager Record, Institute for the Future, and optimism David Pescovitz

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flats Repair Geek tests tire sealants so you don't have to spray hope into a flat Jason Weisberger

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Comic Books Revisiting the strange world of Dick Tracy Gareth Branwyn

Science Early 1900s Thermocap hair loss device looks like sci-fi medical tech gone wrong Popkin

Water Wars The Colorado River's last buffers: officials juggle shrinking reservoirs to avoid system collapse Jason Weisberger

movies Backrooms trailer clips into existence Rob Beschizza

Technology Harvard: ChatGPT has a "foreign bias" on stock picks Ellsworth Toohey

Disney Disney's new Cars ride uses patent technology that lets you steer freely across a mountain race course Ruben Bolling

books The Tokyo Vice author digs into cryptocurrency's darkest chapters Roger Park

"What the actual fuck": inside Anthropic's experiments on Claude's soul Ellsworth Toohey

video A 10-minute introduction to Buckminster Fuller, patron saint of techno-optimism Ellsworth Toohey