How to Peacefully Resolve a Dispute With Your Neighbor
They say “fences make good neighbors,” but if I’m to believe my TikTok feed, that’s a load of hoohockey: It’s all purple mountain majesties and property line disputes out there.…
Tech Is Changing What it Means to Have Dominant Hand
In 2016, Vice reported that nondominant hand masturbation (also known as “left-handed wanking”) was a thing. Various explanations were presented for the practice, including the thrill of using a less…
Empathy in the Age of AI
If you think your dog loves you, you’re a fool. If you feel a kinship with a tree, you’re a hippie. And if you over-empathize with a wild animal, you…
Collective Mental Time Travel Can Influence the Future
We’re often told to “be here now.” Yet the mind is rarely tethered in place. We take mental trips to our past, revisiting what happened yesterday or when we were…
The Three-City Problem of Modern Life
But today there is a third city affecting the other two. Silicon Valley, this third city, is not governed primarily by reason (it is practically the mark of a great…
Three of the Most Common Cooking Myths (and What to Do Instead)
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How Can Society Prepare for the Moral Norms of Tomorrow?
One way of embracing this uncertainty is to adopt a stance of axiological open-mindedness toward the future. We can get a sense of what this might entail by considering how…
The ‘Shamanification’ of the Tech CEO
Why the shift from dependable gray suits to charisma? In his book Searching for a Corporate Savior, Khurana pointed to the issue of ownership. From the ’70s onwards, institutional investors…
What Germany’s Lack of Race Data Means During a Pandemic
“What do you think the rate of Covid-19 is for us?” This is the question that many Black people living in Berlin asked me at the beginning of March 2020.…
Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans
As I got my bearings in the windowless auditorium, the social dynamics came slowly into focus. At last, one of the men, sitting alone at the edge of the audience,…