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How to prove you're human in the age of AI
#72—AI detectors are not wholly accurate. Don’t let them be the sole determinant of your credibility.
 • Alia Parker
6:26
Meditations on electricity and the sixth sense
Read or Listen (7 min) | #71—Here's something we have in common with a power outlet.
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10:25
On being haunted
#70—An attempt to explain strange coincidences at odd moments.
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8:47
The river that runs in reverse
#69—It's easy to be fooled into believing all nature is natural.
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8:11
The infinite want
Listen or read now | #68—Why are we forever wanting? Join writer Alia Parker in this short thought expedition as she looks for contentment in a world of…
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8:51
Life among the invisible
#67—A short flight into the philosophy of hermeneutics while learning to trust the wind.
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9:23
Farewell Cinema and other cultural relics
#66—A nostalgic trip through some things we have lost and something we're losing.
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10:06
Orcas in the bay
#65—A little autofiction about a time I looked straight at something remarkable and didn't truly see it.
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8:56
Is this really the Anthropocene?
#64—A major city is running out of water and a great migration has begun.
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Mind Flexing
Mind Flexing
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