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Freethink @freethink.com · 23/10/2025

Is there a limit on how long humans can live? Read the full article: www.freethink.com/biotech/long... #Longevity

Freethink @freethink.com · 20/10/2025

What if you could add 10 healthy years to your life? | R.M. Schneiderman with Joe Betts-LaCroix Read the full story here: www.freethink.com/biotech/joe-... #Longevity

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Freethink @freethink.com · 04/10/2025

Why can we locate a smartphone in seconds, but a jetliner can vanish into the ocean? Read the full essay: www.freethink.com/opinion/mari...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 03/10/2025

Freethink's own science and tech writer Kristin Houser on cryopreservation — the tech that already powers IVF and cancer treatments, and could one day end the organ shortage, enable deep-space travel, and maybe even challenge death itself.

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Freethink @freethink.com · 03/10/2025

A feature by biologist and author Andrew Steele that explains how to tell genuine breakthroughs from snake oil—and why the first true anti-aging medicines could be approved within five years.

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Freethink @freethink.com · 03/10/2025

An essay from Josie Zayner making a sharp case for embracing mortality. "We are here because of death. It’s not a flaw in the system — it is the system."

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Freethink @freethink.com · 03/10/2025

A deep dive into what animals can tell us about ageing by B. David Zarley.

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Freethink @freethink.com · 03/10/2025

A conversation with cardiologist and author Eric Topol on the science of living better in old age.

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Freethink @freethink.com · 03/10/2025

The Longevity Issue is live now! This special issue explores the science and philosophy of living longer with essays and interviews from experts like Eric Topol, B. David Zarley, and Josie Zayner. Some highlights: 🧵

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Freethink @freethink.com · 30/09/2025

A dramatization of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" is remembered as history's most infamous radio broadcast. The problem is... the panic following the broadcast was largely manufactured by news outlets. #PessimistsArchive

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Freethink @freethink.com · 23/09/2025

Anti-gravity could cut decade-long space journeys down to days. But is it real science or the ultimate disinformation campaign? Read the full story by Andrew Cote: www.freethink.com/space/anti-g...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 18/09/2025

Can a chatbot’s words truly be treated like human speech — or are we rewriting the First Amendment on fear? #AI #MentalHealth Read the full article by Christopher Ferguson: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 17/09/2025

What does it mean when technology, not evolution, sets the limits of the human body? #Biology #History Read the full article by Elle Griffin: www.freethink.com/biotech/huma...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 16/09/2025

“What is it that these gut symbionts are doing that can protect us?” #Biology Read the full article by Namir Khaliq: www.freethink.com/biotech/worm...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 26/08/2025

Can AI outperform scientists? "As AI becomes more adept ... human-led lab experiments are becoming increasingly unnecessary." Read the full article here: www.freethink.com/biotech/ai-b...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 20/08/2025

Now, the Sony Walkman is a cultural icon. But back then it was “a bit Black Mirror." Read the full article here: www.freethink.com/consumer-tec...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 13/08/2025

Would making AI more human make it smarter? Read the full interview with @PhilosophyMinis and @birchlse: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 12/08/2025

"AI isn’t going to kill the entertainment industry, but it will end the creative bottleneck." #Opinion #AI #Automation

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Freethink @freethink.com · 04/08/2025

What if AI virtual cells could help us decode disease, test medication, and rewrite biology? Read the latest edition of Future Explored here: www.freethink.com/artificial-i... #FutureExplored #AI #Biology

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Freethink @freethink.com · 25/07/2025

Opinion: The Golden Dome should be built — just not the way Trump imagines. "Skeptics once thought an Iron Dome was unnecessary. Waves of rockets and missiles proved them wrong." Read the full article from Gal Winter: www.freethink.com/the-changing...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 24/07/2025

What if the real danger isn't AI, it's the humans that control it? The 2004 movie, "I, Robot" poses a convincing allegory to embrace AI innovation. Read more: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 24/07/2025

For decades, the assumption in discussions around technology is that we cannot stop it. We must simply adapt. But that assumption is wrong. Categorically wrong.

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Freethink @freethink.com · 18/07/2025

Mark Zuckerberg is stealing top AI engineers with $300 million pay packages. Here's why big tech is using the sports team playbook:

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Freethink @freethink.com · 01/07/2025

World Wars and the cost of progress

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Freethink @freethink.com · 09/06/2025

An illegal neighborhood?

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Freethink @freethink.com · 02/06/2025

Delivery robots that tunnel into your home

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Freethink @freethink.com · 30/05/2025

AI thinks “vegetative electron microscopy” is real — it’s not. Hallucinations like this one have been traced back to "Digital fossils" in training data — small anomalies that result in the AI sharing false and sometimes harmful information.

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Freethink @freethink.com · 28/05/2025

How much do drugs actually cost to make?

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Freethink @freethink.com · 23/05/2025

What does the perfect battery look like?

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Freethink @freethink.com · 23/05/2025

The most consequential designer of the modern age is teaming up with Sam Altman, Silicon Valley’s visionary. “In the same way that the smartphone didn’t make the laptop go away, I don’t think our first thing is going to make the smartphone go away.” — Sam Altman

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Freethink @freethink.com · 22/05/2025

Officials have a history of making unsupported claims about the impact of tech on children. Here's what we can learn from the surgeon general's war on Pacman...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 21/05/2025

I tasted lab grown meat

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Freethink @freethink.com · 21/05/2025

Grand Theft Auto 6’s delay could lead to a spike in real-life crime

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Freethink @freethink.com · 20/05/2025

Why Substack will be the intellectual engine of the 21st century www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 19/05/2025

Vibe coding is taking over. The AI-driven approach takes you from idea to app in minutes. "We're moving from an era where humans must adapt to the rigid logic of machines to one where machines increasingly adapt to human modes of expression."

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Freethink @freethink.com · 19/05/2025

World's most cutting edge space suit

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Freethink @freethink.com · 16/05/2025

This is a car that you can't drive

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Freethink @freethink.com · 16/05/2025

Cheap AI is causing a power shift in the world’s militaries "AI is poised to do for military analytics what the steam engine did for logistics." Link below ↓

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Freethink @freethink.com · 14/05/2025

The most human-like robot

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Freethink @freethink.com · 01/05/2025

Can we use space lasers to power Earth?

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Freethink @freethink.com · 29/04/2025

“A new era of great abundance will not just come because we build a movement ... but because we now have the technologies that will allow us to build a new kind of economy and society that could work much better for everyone.” — Peter Leyden @peteleyden.bsky.social

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Freethink @freethink.com · 28/04/2025

We are running out of rare metals. Can we mine them in space? For more on the mission to mine asteroids, read the newest edition of Future Explored by Kristin J Houser: www.freethink.com/space/astero...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 16/04/2025

Why is government failing to regulate big tech?

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Freethink @freethink.com · 15/04/2025

“This is why all populist periods in American history are followed by progressive periods." For more on how a historian in 2100 might see the impacts of Trump's populist movement, read the latest edition of The Great Progression: www.freethink.com/the-changing...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 14/04/2025

Introducing our newest Freethink Voice: Rohit Krishnan. Read Krishnan's latest article, "How DeepSeek rewrote the rules of the AI race", kicking off his new series "The Race To AGI": www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

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Freethink @freethink.com · 11/04/2025

Flying taxis are coming to SF

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Freethink @freethink.com · 11/04/2025

Marc Andreessen called DeepSeek “AI’s Sputnik moment.” Here's why: 1. Outsmarted US giants with a tiny team 2. RL-trained R1-Zero broke all the rules 3. Open-source, cheap, and (theoretically) wildly profitable

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Freethink @freethink.com · 10/04/2025

14 reasons why tariffs will not work — and what the nation should be trying instead. Read more: www.freethink.com/opinion/us-t...

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