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Where's My Orbital Habitat?
NASA has always balanced the fantastical against the sensible. What happens when the scales start to tip?
 • Harry Law
Reputation (FDA's Version)
Can the agency that invented modern drug development survive so many assaults on its reputation? A former FDA insider reads an 800-page book to find…
 • Adam
Ideas Aren't Getting Harder to Find
For half a decade we’ve been worrying that ideas are getting harder to find. In fact, they might just be harder to sell.
 • Karthik Tadepalli
Reading Lolita in the Barracks
What does it take to turn South Korea's mandatory military service into a literary retreat?
 • Sheon Han
Jung's Memories
Jung was born 150 years ago. In a special anniversary edition of his biography, all we can see is his shadow
 • Aaron Labaree
The First Prophet of Abundance
David Lilienthal’s account of his years running the Tennessee Valley Authority can read like the Abundance of 1944. We still have a lot to learn from…
 • Kevin Hawickhorst
Can You Just Do Things?
A conversation about how agency is gained, used, and misused. And also love, drugs, and the Enneagram.
 • Cate Hall
Common Ground between AI 2027 & AI as Normal Technology
AI 2027 and AI as Normal Technology were both published in April of this year.
 • Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan, Daniel Kokotajlo, Eli Lifland, and Thomas Larsen
The Perplexing Appeal of The Telepathy Tapes
The Telepathy Tapes claims that autistic children have the ability to read minds. Where do their claims come from — and why do so many people believe…
 • Meghan Boilard
A Conversation on AI and Wealth Distribution
What follows is a transcript of an exploratory panel discussion hosted by Asterisk Magazine, GiveDirectly, and SwissNex on Oct 20, 2025.
 • Clara Collier
Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?
The decline of criticism might explain the sense that our culture is stagnating. How can we bring it back?
 • Celine Nguyen
You Aren't in the DSM
Five editions on, the DSM shoulders more responsibilities than it was ever intended for. How did we get here?
 • Awais Aftab
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