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Hope Reese

Freelance Journalist

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Hope Reese is a freelance journalist based in Budapest whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Vox, The Atlantic, and other publications. Follow her on Twitter @hope_reese.

Education

Are colleges necessary?

Student debt, sticker price, a pandemic, and economic uncertainty has Gen Z rethinking education.

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The metaverse is coming. Cathy Hackl explains why we should care.

We're about to enter the metaverse. This will completely change how we interact with our environment, says Futurist Cathy Hackl.

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Public Health

How we doubled our life expectancy in the last 100 years

“The idea of taking a pill and getting better is actually a very recent invention.”

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Outer Space

Can we (legally) colonize space?

The space race is heating up, but many legal issues are still open to debate.

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Meet MIT’s Kate Darling: Why we should rethink our relationship with robots

According to MIT's Kate Darling, robots are more like animals, not humans.

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Books

Hidden Brain podcast's Shankar Vedantam: Why the truth is not always helpful

His new book explores the benefits of self-deception.

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