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How Data Centers Are Made, Won, and Paid For

Posted on: August 24, 2025August 24, 2025

They don’t look like much from the highway. Vast anonymous boxes with no windows, buzzing quietly behind fences and guards. But make no mistake: these warehouses of computing […]

Education / Ethics

The Intellectual Elegance of Damien Elmes

Posted on: August 20, 2025August 20, 2025

There’s something almost subversive about Anki. In a world where every app is designed to capture and monetize your attention, here’s one that actually wants to give your […]

Ethics / Healthcare

Burnout, Boundaries, and the Battle to Balance Care and Career

Posted on: August 19, 2025August 19, 2025

There’s a woman I know who makes chicken pot pie every Tuesday. Last week, she forgot the chicken. Not because she’s losing her mind, but because her mind […]

Finance / Homelessness / Policy

The House We All Live In

Posted on: August 15, 2025August 15, 2025

Every once in a while, a problem comes along that is so big, so intertwined with everything else, that we stop seeing it. Housing in America is like […]

Ethics / Policy / Rights and Equality

The One Question That Helped a Small Business Stop Losing Good People

Posted on: August 14, 2025August 15, 2025

Jenna runs a 35-person coffee roastery in the foothills of North Carolina. It’s the kind of place where everyone knows each other’s schedule, where a sick day strains […]

Finance / Policy

When Fewer Babies Meet Rising Prices. Rethinking Inflation in an Aging World

Posted on: August 13, 2025August 15, 2025

Most people think of inflation as a four-letter word in economic form. Prices go up, wages struggle to keep pace, and that weekly grocery bill becomes another gut […]

Rights and Equality / Technology

AI maybe the new king but soon Quantum will be guarding the castle

Posted on: August 11, 2025August 11, 2025

Here’s the thing about breakthrough technologies: they don’t announce themselves with fanfare. They creep up on us, quietly building momentum until suddenly they’re everywhere. Take artificial intelligence. For […]

Education / Finance / Foreign Policy / Policy

Unequal. Unjust. Unacceptable: A Global Dashboard of Redistribution and Inequality

Posted on: August 6, 2025August 6, 2025

What happens when we stop asking how much people make and start asking how fairly it gets shared? That question drives the new web-based dashboard “Who Shares the […]

Art / Education / Media / Stories

GPT Ate My Homework

Posted on: August 5, 2025August 5, 2025

The man sits in his kitchen at 2:47 p.m. on a Tuesday in late August, laptop open, coffee cold, staring at a cursor that blinks with the persistence […]

Finance / Sports

LeBron: Endgame

Posted on: August 4, 2025August 4, 2025

A $5 billion war chest. Global investors from Saudi Arabia to Singapore. And LeBron James at the center of it all, potentially plotting the most audacious challenge to […]

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