Europe’s crop losses from heat and drought tripled in past 50 years, study shows dailysabah.com/life/environme…

A few years back, we wanted to investigate how easy it might be to launch a bot attack via Twitter, so we created the FauxPublica account and went shopping for retweets... propub.li/2PqRNsr

One of the saddest things about this is how unsurprising it is. I heard this so often when I was Mimi’s age. The difference? More than two decades. And yet. #StopAsianHate

Learning is underrated. Grades are overrated. 🧠

Muon g-2’s first results are out, and it’s fascinating news! sciencenews.org/article/muon-p…

Check out this interesting The Washington Post piece featuring the groundbreaking work of our Innovation Cell 👇🏽

The Art of Biophilia: Extraordinary Mosaics Incorporating Earth’s Most Colorful Creatures – Brain Pickings brainpickings.org/2015/07/06/bio…

politico.eu/article/kabul-… poignant and harrowing as ever by Fariba Nawa about getting family out of Herat

Sundance is nigh. And there’s quite a few exciting works by Black directors in its lineup. For @indiewire I highlighted the 10 eye-catching feature films and docuseries helmed by Black creators at this year’s Sundance Film Festival indiewire.com/2022/01/sundan…

Sitting here in the #UN Security Council, a dream I had a decade ago has finally come true: the UN Security Council is using #VR to understand the situation in Colombia better

HoloLens Optics Chief Joins Google Amid Reported Push for Upcoming Google AR Headset ow.ly/t80950HzVSP

The Solar System isn't a vortex, but rather the sum of all our great cosmic motions. Here's how we move through space. bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…

Join us tomorrow at 8 Eastern for our #Sundance2022 talk on the #UN in the #Metaverse and our new #VR adventure with igal nassima @KlausHarnack Heidi Boisvert Pietro Gagliano festival.sundance.org/program/#talk-…

A true honor to accept the #GWF2022 Geospatial World Excellence award for our Water Security and Conflict monitoring dashboard with visionaries Daanish Masood Alavi, Sami Murphy, Trevor Skaggs Element 84. I've waited an entire career to be a part of such a wonderful project.

New paper from our team OpenAI: “Evolution through Large Models.” Idea: Large language models trained on code can propose mutations to programs of unprecedented coherence. Broad implications for EC,Genetic Programming,RL,deep learning,open-endedness. arxiv.org/abs/2206.08896 1/4

DPPA’s Innovation Cell and United Nations Iraq, in conjunction with Element 84, developed an award-winning tool to track the relationship between access to water and social unrest. More details in Politically Speaking: dppa.medium.com/eyes-in-the-sk…

What's in another's mind? Good piece by Grace Huckins in MIT MIT Technology Review featuring Raphaël Millière & also our upcoming paper on the computational phenomenology of visual hallucinations (w/ Keisuke Suzuki @ksks.bsky.social & David Schwartzman) technologyreview.com/2023/11/15/108…

“Grothendieck was working on the foundations of algebraic geometry seven days a week, twelve hours a day, for ten years”. - David Ruelle ift.tt/6ObKgc4

Absolutely necessary and brilliant essay by Pankaj Mishra on Iran, India and America in The New York Review of Books The hubris, the war, the histories. nybooks.com/online/2026/03… And it should be read along with an older essay of his on Iran, the Revolution, and Foucault : nybooks.com/articles/2005/…