by Warp Institute | Nov 14, 2022 | Column, 🌟 Premium Content
I got excited when Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of Our Nature came out in the fall of 2011. I had self-published Apokalypsens gosiga mörker (The cuddly darkness of the apocalypse) two and a half years earlier, where a main chapter was about the...
by Warp Institute | Nov 7, 2022 | Column, 🌟 Premium Content, 🛰 Space
Without functioning satellites, our communications are limited, our banking systems are out of order, our gas pumps are empty and directions to the nearest grocery store are no longer a click away. Points that may seem small, but on a larger scale, knocked out banking...
by Warp Institute | Oct 31, 2022 | Column, News media, 🌟 Premium Content, 📈 Human Progress
Sorry about the angry headline, but I'm just following the trend. Angry headlines have increased dramatically in the last 20 years. So has headlines that with fear, sadness and disgust. Neutral headlines have decreased as well as headlines with joy.In a new paper...
by Warp Institute | Oct 17, 2022 | Column, 🌟 Premium Content
Surely it feels as if the crises are coming more and more often. In the past, there were at least gaps of a few years between the crisis periods, but now it is as if they lie side by side, or even change hands: Terror crisis – refugee crisis – financial...
by Warp Institute | Oct 10, 2022 | Column, 🌟 Premium Content
The functioning of the brain is certainly one of the great enigmas of our universe. While the study of very far celestial bodies is deepening, our main organ's behaviour is still almost totally veiled by mystery.How is thought possible? Where is our conscience...
