At the same moment when technologically driven increases to human lifespans seem to be on the horizon, far fewer people are having children. Could the two be connected? Jacob Dreyer explores. #biohacking #longevity #ai

Gorgeous photos in this article by Leon McCarron in @noemamag.com from March 2025! www.noemamag.com/the-unlikely... #railway #middleeast #syria #jordan #saudiarabia

Could the U.S. strike a deal with Iran to transform its highly enriched uranium into nuclear energy? Similarly far-fetched deals have happened before, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow writes.

If driverless cars are widely adopted, “the population-level health effect could rival those of seat belts or the decline in smoking,” Jonathan Slotkin argues. So what is the hold up? #waymo #selfdriving

as age verification laws spread, the general public needs to understand the risks as well as the benefits. @noupside.bsky.social provides a (characteristically) clear and balanced guide here

“Just as industrial agriculture replaced the diversity of the living soil with chemical fertilizers & crop monocultures — productive in the short term, devastating over time — the current AI moment is producing an epistemic monoculture.” —Otto Scharmer www.noemamag.com/we-may-be-en...

“Despite the arrogant claims of those who say science can ‘explain everything,’ most phenomena, from thunderstorms to protein folding, escape our full understanding.” — @rovelli.bsky.social

“Designing ways to protect human autonomy is hard work, but it begins with abandoning the fantasy of self-sovereignty.” —Daniele Cavalli

“It is a paradox that a closed society like China is conquering the world with open-source AI models while the most open society, America, is producing mostly closed-source proprietary models that are less adaptable for the rest of the world, & far more expensive.” —Nathan Gardels #china #llm #ai

“AI overtaking us in intelligence lays bare the massive category error we have made in increasingly defining ourselves by our intelligence.” — @ariannahuff.bsky.social #artificialintelligence #humanintelligence

“Nuclear waste now lies stranded across 39 states at more than 100 locations. Surrounding communities never agreed to host it indefinitely.” — @vincentialenti.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/what-america...

The idea of "dialogue between scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems" reminds me of this article from @noemamag.com: We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age > "The third, emerging intelligence could be called field or source intelligence." www.noemamag.com/we-may-be-en...

The Iran war has helped Pakistan showcase its unique set of skills & increased its status in the world order, @binashah.bsky.social writes. #iranwar #pakistan

The global refugee regime is unraveling. This piece exposes the ideological terrain: as border regimes harden, and UN agencies become proxies for donor states’ priorities, the displaced are held in limbo, denied both rights and a future. By @joshuacraze.bsky.social in @noemamag.com buff.ly/NmzF7G8

Explorer Klaus Thymann is on a mission to create a visual Noah's Ark of the last tropical glaciers in Papua — once gone, a rare part of the tropical cryosphere will be erased. See how he's capturing them for eternity ⬇️

“Petty tyrants are more focused on personal victories than on national priorities. The good news is that they carry within them the seeds of their own destruction.” —Danny Hillis

“The world is not a machine. We have no dominion. We must learn to collaborate with the rest of nature, living & abiotic.” —Stuart Kauffman

Scent is a vital component of human intelligence. But in our quest to advance artificial intelligence, nobody seems to care about it, Philip Maughan writes.

I wrote an essay for @noemamag.com about AI consciousness, animal research, and the limits of what we can know about another mind. My argument: the lessons neuroscientists learned hunting for neural markers of consciousness in animals are exactly the ones we'll need as we start asking...

Delighted to discover that my piece for @noemamag.com about solar storms scooped the @lapressclub.bsky.social award for science reporting. Pls send flowers and champagne.

“The science of consciousness & the ethics of moral consideration — what we have learned from rats & monkeys & humans — will have to guide us as we meet artificial minds,” @guitchounts.bsky.social writes. #ai #aiethics #consciousness

L'histoire sur les "enfants de poils" en Chine, publié l'an dernier chez @noemamag.com a remporté ce weekend le prix du meilleur article dans la catégorie "Lifestyle" lors de la 68th Southern California Journalism Awards décerné par le Los Angeles Press Club.

Very chuffed.

Thrilled to win a first for my essay on trust and carbon capture.

Participation without populism: governing with the people, not by them or for them.

1/ Noema is honored to share that we won 23 awards from the LA Press Club over the weekend! We had 6 first-place, 11 second-place & 7 third-place winners this year, including our own Editor-In-Chief Nathan Gardels! Check out all the award-winning work below ⬇️

The Founders’ approach to governance “would surprise most Americans today,” Nathan Gardels & @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social write. “The word ‘democracy’ does not appear in the U.S. Constitution. Nor in the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence.” #america250 #democracy

We need methods to verify personhood on the internet. The tension with privacy is real.

What a fantastic essay on the space of our digital world.

The growing number of AI agents roaming the internet will eventually force us to verify what the old web mostly presumed: that there is a morally & legally accountable person somewhere in the chain, @noupside.bsky.social writes. #aiagents #identitytheft

This story has just won the Flora & Fauna category at the 68th Southern California Journalism Awards. Thank you to everyone @noemamag.com and @lapressclub.bsky.social. And, most importantly, to everyone who told me how oaks live and die

“MAGA has been very effective at speaking to the sense that the moral fabric of community was unraveling around us, invoking a kind of hyper-nationalism that asserts sovereignty & belonging with a vengeance.” —Michael Sandel

“For decades, the prevailing career advice was simple & utilitarian: Abandon the squishy subjects of the arts & humanities & embrace STEM. That advice is all but obsolete.” — @nilsgilman.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/why-a-libera...

What would you give to bring someone back from the dead? To be able to talk to them again? Well, Orpheus is about to launch their brand new app that will allow you to do just that, Chris Insana writes in a new fiction piece for Noema. What could possibly go wrong? www.noemamag.com/the-eradicat...

“I remember when going online took effort, and I remember, too, when that effort evaporated.” — @laurajmartin.bsky.social

“[W]hat remains when intelligence becomes cheap? Presence. Embodiment. Ritual. Family. Friendship. Love. The courage to participate in the lives of others without control. The willingness to be changed by people who are not designed for us.” What a worthwhile essay!

“We are learning, every time we talk to AI, what it feels like to be listened to without friction. Over time, this feeling will change us.” —Houda Nait El Barj #ai #airelationships

"Detractors might scoff at Musk’s ambition to die on Mars, but at least the dying part would be easy." @henrywismayer.bsky.social for @noemamag.com: www.noemamag.com/the-mars-del...

“Historians may well look back to the Iran war as the midwife in the pivotal transition to the global renewable energy economy.” —Nathan Gardels #iran #energy #peacedeal

As humanitarian funding collapses, the global system for dealing with refugees is coming apart at the seams, Joshua Craze writes. #refugees #immigration #geopolitics

Good read! – “The designer’s job…isn’t just to align individual incentives but to “find a way and orient things to encourage them to establish relationships across the differences that currently divide them.””

Interesting article alert:

"Establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk. Why are so many people obsessed with achieving it?" via @noemamag.com www.realclearscience.com/2026/06/20/t...

“Few in the Trump Administration, Silicon Valley or China’s planning apparatus stop to ask: What is our goal with technology? What constitutes a flourishing human life?” —Jacob Dreyer www.noemamag.com/after-the-ai...

"The question that will determine whether AI becomes an engine of institutional intelligence or an accelerant of institutional decay is whether we will learn to see, measure & preserve the conditions under which human capability compounds." —Barton Friedland

“Design is ultimately a technology of implementation, not morality. It optimizes for whatever outcome the rules specify.” — @hennyge.bsky.social

We built telescopes to extend our senses. We may have built AI to now use us as its own, @umangsbhatt.bsky.social writes.

“Detractors might scoff at Musk’s ambition to die on Mars, but at least the dying part would be easy.” — @henrywismayer.bsky.social #mars #spaceexploration #spacex

“The only thing worse than a human with their finger on the atomic trigger is an AI quick on the draw based on faulty intelligence.” —Nathan Gardels #warfare #ai #drones

“The future will entail humans ‘on the loop’ of a distributed system, rather than always ‘in the loop’ — supervising, auditing & intervening when something looks wrong, but not necessarily authorizing each individual shot.” —Eric Schmidt #military #ai #drones