My biggest game-changer

Summary: A famous bet between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich illustrates two ways of thinking about resources and human ingenuity. Ehrlich thought of resources as a fixed pie, while Simon believed that human beings would find ways to make resources more abundant.…

He was once the most powerful person in Ethiopia — and then he disappeared. His photos were suppressed, writing about him was banned, and to this day, no one knows where he is buried. This is the story of Lij Iyasu — the uncrowned heir to Menelik II, deposed…

The open web with AIs is turning into a dark forest.

Humans are leaving low Earth orbit and heading back to the Moon for the first time since 1972. In just days, NASA will attempt to launch Artemis II, the first crewed lunar mission of the Artemis program, flying around the moon!

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