How the Earth Invented Sleep
The Sunday Morning Post: The scientific connection between billion-year-old volcanos, oxygen, and your dreams| Derek Thompson
The Sunday Morning Post: The scientific connection between billion-year-old volcanos, oxygen, and your dreams| Derek Thompson
Since November 2022, the stock market is up more than 70 percent and job openings are down more than 30 percent. Nothing like this has happened in decades.| Derek Thompson
Today's Sunday Morning Post: Attention, finitude, and a game of life| Derek Thompson
*The best arguments I've heard on the $10 trillion question of the moment| www.derekthompson.org
Welcome back to The Sunday Morning Post.| Derek Thompson
The artificial intelligence boom is the most important economic story in the world. But the numbers just don't add up.| Derek Thompson
Mental health, ideology, and the psycho-politics of the future| Derek Thompson
A Sunday Morning Post about the strange wonder of placebo effects in medicine and society, with brief appearances by Indiana Jones and William James| Derek Thompson
Political violence is like a lightning bolt: sudden, surprising, seemingly random, yet always emerging from a local weather system. Do not forget that we all make the weather.| www.derekthompson.org
The rise of AI's "thinking" machines is not the problem. The decline of thinking people is.| www.derekthompson.org
Charts and history lessons—across culture, politics, AI, economics, health, science, and the long story of progress| Derek Thompson
Or: Why does it seem like every psychological condition is an "epidemic" these days?| www.derekthompson.org
Step one: Create pain. Step two: Demand tribute. Step three: Repeat.| www.derekthompson.org
This is the road to stagflation| Derek Thompson
The truth about calories, ultra-processed food, and why “myth-busting” media sometimes makes more myths| www.derekthompson.org
It's a story with massive economic and political significance. But it's receiving strangely little attention.| www.derekthompson.org
The scientific benefits of waking up, having dinner, finishing your last cocktail, and even getting medicine much earlier in the day| www.derekthompson.org
A big nerd debate with bigger implications for the future of work, technology, and the economy| Derek Thompson
In 2019, pickleball was half as popular as badminton. Last year, it was more popular than baseball. What does its rise tell us about fads, fitness, and culture?| Derek Thompson
"I can imagine a future where a lot of people really trust ChatGPT’s advice for their most important decisions," Sam Altman said. "Although that could be great, it makes me uneasy." Me too, Sam.| www.derekthompson.org
Artificial intelligence is the biggest tech construction project in a century. Here's what that looks like.| www.derekthompson.org
An interview with the social psychologist Adam Mastroianni about American aloneness and why the secret to great conversations is ... "doorknobs."| www.derekthompson.org
We’re taking health care away from poor families to create budget space for an esoteric tax cut that narrowly benefits millionaire auto dealers and independent consultants.| www.derekthompson.org
Donald Trump's scarcity agenda is not going to solve the problem. Here's what might.| www.derekthompson.org
What one of my favorite history books about my favorite historical period—turn-of-the-century American—tells us about technology, anxiety, and human nature| www.derekthompson.org
Poisoned by inflation, shot by tariffs, counted out by economists, it just keeps kicking.| www.derekthompson.org
Studies show that the obesity and diabetes medication also reduces heart attacks, cancer risk, migraines, and memory loss. How is that even possible? And at what point should we all be on it?| www.derekthompson.org
Plus: How to save 100 million lives with 1/400th of our income| www.derekthompson.org
Antitrust critics say that homebuilding monopolies are the real culprit of America’s housing woes. I looked into some of their claims. They don’t hold up.| www.derekthompson.org
Young Americans today spend 70 percent less time attending or hosting parties than they did at the beginning of the 21st century. Why?| www.derekthompson.org
