Climate research is partly about documenting what has happened, partly about predicting what will happen. In a previous article in this series, the state of knowledge regarding extreme weather phenomena is described, i.e. what has happened.The media likes to produce...
This is a premium article, part of our premium content for Premium Supporters. Open for everyone thanks to the premium supporter's generous contributions.WISDOM OF CROWDS, part 2.The first part can be found here.At the Warp Institute we want the future to come...
Every week we send out a free newsletter with fact-based optimistic news on technology, science and human progress. Sign up!“Wow, do you think this is the Jim O'Shaughnessy?”, my Warp News colleague Eric Porper wrote to me on Slack. “He just...
WISDOM OF CROWDS, Part 1Wikipedia and democracy not only work – they work better. All thanks to what James Surowiecki calls the Wisdom of Crowds, in the book of the same title.Surowiecki opens the book with an example from 1906 when Francis Galton was given the...
This is a premium article, part of our content for Premium Supporters, open for everyone thanks to the members' generous contributions.In parts of the world, Coke is sold in new cans. Taller, sleeker and less aluminum is required to make them. In Sweden alone,...
According to many, what Heart Aerospace does in its hangar at Säve Airport outside Gothenburg is impossible: to create an electric aircraft for commercial traffic.Despite the least exciting assignment, to help electrify aviation, the company works internally to...