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How We Turned Social Media Into Poison
How We Turned Social Media Into Poison
Social media morphed into something far darker than it was ever intended, and its creators are powerless or unwilling to fix it
Greg Fish
Apr 26, 2018
To Solve The Opioid Epidemic We Need To Invest More In Stem Cell Research
To Solve The Opioid Epidemic We Need To Invest More In Stem Cell Re...
Politicians want short-term solutions to the opioid epidemic that don’t address the root cause: chronic pain
Greg Fish
Apr 18, 2018
As Canada Recruits The World’s Best Talent, Trump’s America Repels Them
As Canada Recruits The World’s Best Talent, Trump’s America Repels ...
When America grows more intolerant, it threatens its own high-tech, innovative edge. MAGA?
Greg Fish
Apr 7, 2018
Governments Got Us To Space, But Private Companies Will Keep Us There
Governments Got Us To Space, But Private Companies Will Keep Us There
Why Our Future In Space Will Be Less Star Trek And More Foundation
Greg Fish
Apr 4, 2018
Computer Scientist: Cambridge Analytica Are Dirty Tricksters With An Overhyped Data Operation
Computer Scientist: Cambridge Analytica Are Dirty Tricksters With A...
It appears that their analytics product is overhyped and their main service may be dirty tricks — which deserves scrutiny
Greg Fish
Mar 25, 2018
Putin’s Paranoid Provocations
Putin’s Paranoid Provocations
The new Russian missiles designed to evade NATO defenses likely don’t exist as Putin’s foreign policy turns into fearful saber-rattling
Greg Fish
Mar 13, 2018
Fox News Is Gaslighting Their Viewers Into Authoritarianism
Fox News Is Gaslighting Their Viewers Into Authoritarianism
In a crisis, rules are allowed to be broken and norms suspended. And it’s Fox’s job to manufacture those crises for the GOP.
Greg Fish
Feb 3, 2018
Fearing Social Progress, Trump And His Base Cling To Fake News And Nostalgia
Fearing Social Progress, Trump And His Base Cling To Fake News And ...
For MAGA, nostalgia is a coping mechanism after decades of gorging on Fox News propaganda
Kaz Weida
Nov 29, 2017
America Is Greater Than Trumpism
America Is Greater Than Trumpism
We need a new generation of leaders who believe that our best days are ahead of us, not behind.
Greg Fish
Nov 21, 2017
11 Lines Of Code Will Replace Millions Of Jobs. What Can We Do About It?
11 Lines Of Code Will Replace Millions Of Jobs. What Can We Do Abou...
AI is eating the industrial economy as we know it. But how, why, and what can we do about it?
Greg Fish
Nov 17, 2017
How Climate Change Fueled The Far-Right’s Rise And Why We Need To Stop Both
How Climate Change Fueled The Far-Right’s Rise And Why We Need To S...
Climate change may be playing an indirect role in the resurgence of the far-right in the West
Greg Fish
Oct 25, 2017
Why Social Media Is So Bad At Stopping The Monsters Among Us
Why Social Media Is So Bad At Stopping The Monsters Among Us
More code can’t solve a uniquely human problem.
Greg Fish
Oct 21, 2017
Putin’s Professional Trolls Catfished And Paid Pro-Trump Activists In The US
Putin’s Professional Trolls Catfished And Paid Pro-Trump Activists ...
After embedding themselves deeply in social media, Kremlin’s trolls are branching out into mass media and activism
Greg Fish
Oct 17, 2017
How To Empower Artificial Intelligence To Take On Racist Trolls
How To Empower Artificial Intelligence To Take On Racist Trolls
Social media is overwhelmed with toxic trolls and humans are failing to keep them at bay. It’s time for AI to help them.
Greg Fish
Oct 11, 2017
Here’s What Would Happen If Donald Trump Nuked North Korea
Here’s What Would Happen If Donald Trump Nuked North Korea
In 1945, America won the war with nukes. Today, it could end the world as we know it.
Greg Fish
Oct 8, 2017
Trump’s NASA Nominee Wants To Study Climate Change On Mars But Not On Earth
Trump’s NASA Nominee Wants To Study Climate Change On Mars But Not ...
Climate change denying Rep. Jim Bridenstine thinks the sun is responsible for global warming across the solar system. He’s wrong.
Greg Fish
Sep 19, 2017
How To Stop Supervolcanoes From Destroying Humanity (And Make A Profit)
How To Stop Supervolcanoes From Destroying Humanity (And Make A Pro...
NASA has a plan to stop supervolcanoes from erupting and devastating our civilization and we should put it into action immediately.
Greg Fish
Sep 13, 2017
Click-Bait Headlines On A New Evolution Study Is Fodder For White Supremacists
Click-Bait Headlines On A New Evolution Study Is Fodder For White S...
Two popular science stories claim explosive new evidence that humans originated in Europe… That is far from the truth.
Greg Fish
Sep 9, 2017
Russian Hacking? GOP Voter Suppression? What An Election Probe Would Uncover
Russian Hacking? GOP Voter Suppression? What An Election Probe Woul...
If the U.S. were to probe whether or not Russia hacked our election machines, we may find more impactful domestic threats to our elections
Greg Fish
Sep 5, 2017
Why Russia Can’t Beat Sanctions By Using Cryptocurrencies
Why Russia Can’t Beat Sanctions By Using Cryptocurrencies
Turns out that digital money like bitcoin and etherium just won’t cut it for an oligarch under sanctions.
Greg Fish
Aug 16, 2017
You Probably Won’t Get A Chance To Design Your Baby And That’s A Good Thing
You Probably Won’t Get A Chance To Design Your Baby And That’s A Go...
We’re getting close to casually tinkering with our genomes, but some very important limitations to this ability
Greg Fish
Jul 31, 2017
While Sweden’s IT Breach Threatens Its Government, America May Be Headed Down The Same Road
While Sweden’s IT Breach Threatens Its Government, America May Be H...
Sweden’s massive data breach is not just a national crisis, it’s a dire warning to other countries.
Greg Fish
Jul 27, 2017
Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs Are Real — And Dangerous
Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs Are Real — And Dangerous
We’ll need to invest immediately to ward off the coming battle with bacteria
Greg Fish
Jul 22, 2017
Hail The The Machine Overlord-In-Chief?
Hail The The Machine Overlord-In-Chief?
A small, loosely affiliated group want a robot president. That’s not going to work out well for any of us…
Greg Fish
Jul 17, 2017
Here’s How Twitter Can Combat President Trump And His Army Of Trolls
Here’s How Twitter Can Combat President Trump And His Army Of Trolls
Twitter could easily put a leash on the Troll-in-Chief, but they need to tread lightly
Greg Fish
Jul 3, 2017
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