religion Will Jesus return in 2025? Traders bet half a million on Polymarket Mark Frauenfelder

qanon How to make money betting against Qanon Mark Frauenfelder

smuggling US border patrol seizing more eggs than fentanyl Allan Rose Hill

politics Cornell University collects news and guidance on avian influenza Jennifer Sandlin

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

Technology Prediction markets bet against bird flu becoming the next COVID-19 Ellsworth Toohey

Economy Unexpectedly strong jobs report alarms media hoping for mass unemployment to kick in Rob Beschizza

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

Comic Books Alan Moore on Covid, super heroes, Trump and Brexit Thom Dunn

books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow

VC Fred Wilson's prediction: we will have a different President of the United States by the end of 2019 Mark Frauenfelder

surveillance Is this the full list of US cities that have bought or considered Predpol's predictive policing services? Cory Doctorow

Business Amazon has been quietly selling its facial recognition system to US police forces, marketing it for bodycam use Cory Doctorow

scholarship Distinguished scientist on the mistakes pundits make when they predict the future of AI Cory Doctorow

fake news Sexbots, Nostradamus and Donald Trump, in this week's tabloids Peter Sheridan

Health Care The current state of American healthcare Matthew B.J. Delaney

happy mutants Canadian government thinktank warns that renewables will gut market for Canada's dirty oil Cory Doctorow

politics Technology's "culture of compliance" must be beaten back in the name of justice Cory Doctorow

Japan Mitsubishi's dieselgate: cheating since 1991 Cory Doctorow

class war EAT BUGS: Monetary incentives distort our perceptions of what's good for us Cory Doctorow