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Lessons From SARS: How to Deal With the Wuhan Coronavirus — and Our New Normal

What I learned about outbreaks from surviving a pandemic

Jan 31, 2020

Lessons From SARS: How to Deal With the Wuhan Coronavirus — and Our New Normal

Jan 31, 2020

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OneZero

Survey Says Americans Believe in Aliens

More than a quarter think alien societies would resemble human ones — but they’re likely wrong about UFO visitation

Jan 28, 2020

Survey Says Americans Believe in Aliens

Jan 28, 2020

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OneZero

The Biggest Lesson About Climate Change From 2019

We need to change how our economy is powered — and that will require politics

Dec 26, 2019

The Biggest Lesson About Climate Change From 2019

Dec 26, 2019

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OneZero

California’s Preemptive Blackout Portends a Dark Future

Climate change plays a role, but the power outages are chiefly the result of mismanagement — the kind we can no longer afford

Oct 10, 2019

California’s Preemptive Blackout Portends a Dark Future

Oct 10, 2019

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OneZero

Is This the End?

As the clock ticks toward the end times, it’s easy to lose faith in humanity’s ability to endure. But we can’t give up.

Aug 27, 2019

Is This the End?

Aug 27, 2019

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OneZero

Maybe Let’s Not Try to Talk to Aliens

In an effort to speed up the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, some researchers are sending messages into the cosmos. We may not…

Aug 26, 2019

Maybe Let’s Not Try to Talk to Aliens

Aug 26, 2019

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OneZero

A.I. Is the Cause Of — And Solution To — the End of the World

The development of artificial general intelligence offers tremendous benefits and terrible risks

Aug 22, 2019

A.I. Is the Cause Of — And Solution To — the End of the World

Aug 22, 2019

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OneZero

Bioengineering the End Times

New technologies like gene editing could vastly improve human life. They also just might end it.

Aug 19, 2019

Bioengineering the End Times

Aug 19, 2019

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OneZero

Could Climate Change Really End the World?

Species are going extinct and the climate is warming rapidly — yet at least materially, humans are doing better than ever. Welcome to the…

Aug 16, 2019

Could Climate Change Really End the World?

Aug 16, 2019

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OneZero

The Morning We Learned How to Destroy the World

Seventy-four years after World War II, we’re still living with the risk of nuclear holocaust — and it all began on a patch of desert

Aug 15, 2019

The Morning We Learned How to Destroy the World

Aug 15, 2019

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OneZero

How to Defend the Planet

A six-mile-wide asteroid ended the dinosaurs, and the same could happen to us one day. But NASA is at work on ways to keep us safe.

Aug 12, 2019

An illustration of an asteroid in space.

Aug 12, 2019

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OneZero

A Brief Guide to the End of the World

Humanity faces existential peril as never before. But whether or not we go extinct is up to us.

Aug 9, 2019

A Brief Guide to the End of the World

Aug 9, 2019

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OneZero

There’s No Free Lunch With Climate Change

A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change underscores the hard choices we face on land use and global warming

Aug 8, 2019

There’s No Free Lunch With Climate Change

Aug 8, 2019

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OneZero

You Should Be Scared of Nuclear War Again

The Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw from a Cold War-era nuclear missile treaty will put us all in renewed danger

Aug 2, 2019

You Should Be Scared of Nuclear War Again

Aug 2, 2019

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GEN

Chuck Klosterman on Writing, Reading, and Creating Work That Lasts

The rock critic and author talks with Gen about his new book of micro-fictions and the changing nature of cultural consumption

Jul 10, 2019

Chuck Klosterman on Writing, Reading, and Creating Work That Lasts

Jul 10, 2019

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OneZero

Ian McEwan on His New Novel and Ethics in the Age of A.I.

When we program morality into robots, are we doomed to disappoint them with our very human ethical inconsistency?

May 20, 2019

Ian McEwan on His New Novel and Ethics in the Age of A.I.

May 20, 2019

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OneZero

The Asymmetry of the Christchurch Shootings

An act of terror by a few overshadows — online and off — a global youth protest against climate change

Mar 15, 2019

The Asymmetry of the Christchurch Shootings

Mar 15, 2019

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GEN

The True Scandal of the College Admissions Scam

A multimillion-dollar fraud involving Hollywood celebrities and Silicon Valley investors reveals the moral bankruptcy of elite colleges

Mar 13, 2019

The True Scandal of the College Admissions Scam

Mar 13, 2019

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OneZero

Why the 21st Century Will Be Defined by Biology

Neuroscientist Susan Hockfield—the first female president of MIT—on women in science, living batteries, and the coming biotech revolution

Mar 5, 2019

Why the 21st Century Will Be Defined by Biology

Mar 5, 2019

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Words That Matter

Why ‘Risk’ Is the Word of the Year

The president is a walking, talking, tweeting risk factor for the world

Dec 14, 2018

Why ‘Risk’ Is the Word of the Year

Dec 14, 2018

Bryan Walsh

Bryan Walsh

Journalist, author, dad. Former TIME magazine editor and foreign correspondent. Author of END TIMES, a book about existential risk and the end of the world.

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