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Lessons From SARS: How to Deal With the Wuhan Coronavirus — and Our New Normal

What I learned about outbreaks from surviving a pandemic

8 min readJan 31, 2020

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Lessons From SARS: How to Deal With the Wuhan Coronavirus — and Our New Normal

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Survey Says Americans Believe in Aliens

More than a quarter think alien societies would resemble human ones — but they’re likely wrong about UFO visitation

2 min readJan 28, 2020

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Survey Says Americans Believe in Aliens

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The Biggest Lesson About Climate Change From 2019

We need to change how our economy is powered — and that will require politics

8 min readDec 26, 2019

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The Biggest Lesson About Climate Change From 2019

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California’s Preemptive Blackout Portends a Dark Future

Climate change plays a role, but the power outages are chiefly the result of mismanagement — the kind we can no longer afford

7 min readOct 10, 2019

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California’s Preemptive Blackout Portends a Dark Future

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Is This the End?

As the clock ticks toward the end times, it’s easy to lose faith in humanity’s ability to endure. But we can’t give up.

7 min readAug 27, 2019

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Is This the End?

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Maybe Let’s Not Try to Talk to Aliens

In an effort to speed up the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, some researchers are sending messages into the cosmos. We may not…

7 min readAug 26, 2019

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Maybe Let’s Not Try to Talk to Aliens

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A.I. Is the Cause Of — And Solution To — the End of the World

The development of artificial general intelligence offers tremendous benefits and terrible risks

7 min readAug 22, 2019

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A.I. Is the Cause Of — And Solution To — the End of the World

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Bioengineering the End Times

New technologies like gene editing could vastly improve human life. They also just might end it.

6 min readAug 19, 2019

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Bioengineering the End Times

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Could Climate Change Really End the World?

Species are going extinct and the climate is warming rapidly — yet at least materially, humans are doing better than ever. Welcome to the…

7 min readAug 16, 2019

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Could Climate Change Really End the World?

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The Morning We Learned How to Destroy the World

Seventy-four years after World War II, we’re still living with the risk of nuclear holocaust — and it all began on a patch of desert

11 min readAug 15, 2019

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The Morning We Learned How to Destroy the World

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Bryan Walsh

Bryan Walsh

Journalist, author, dad. Former TIME magazine editor and foreign correspondent. Author of END TIMES, a book about existential risk and the end of the world.

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