Lauren Tamaki for VoxChile’s minister for the environment hopes to bring science, social equality, and decarbonization together. As a climate scientist and professor of geophysics at the Universidad de Chile, Maisa Rojas was unhappy with political inaction around climate change — so she decided to step up to the plate, join Chile’s government, and try to enact legislation that follows the science. Prior to becoming the minister for the environment... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki and Paige Vickers/VoxThe thinkers, activists, and scholars working on solutions to today’s (and tomorrow’s) biggest problems. At Future Perfect, we’re primarily concerned with ideas — ideas that can change the world, ideas that can make it a better place, ideas that might seem utopian but are actually doable. But ideas only matter so far as they have people behind them, the people who can transform those ideas into... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxFor the APEX Advocacy founder, moral consistency means championing the rights of all. For Christopher “Soul” Eubanks, veganism is more than simply avoiding animal products. It’s also an opportunity to resist the exploitation of all beings, from the billions of animals tightly packed onto factory farm floors to the communities of color who disproportionately live alongside these polluting facilities. Eubanks, a social justice advocate and innovative moral... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxThe Ethiopian American plant geneticist designed better sorghum — saving thousands, if not millions, of lives. Food scientist Gebisa Ejeta couldn’t stand idly by while people suffer from hunger. Born in a remote village in Ethiopia more than 70 years ago, Ejeta would walk more than 12 miles to school in a nearby town to learn. His mother later encouraged him, with help from an Oklahoma State... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxTeran worries the government isn’t doing enough to address biosecurity risks. She’s pushing to change that. Nearly four years after the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread from Wuhan, some 28 million people worldwide have died prematurely in the ensuing pandemic. Governments spent trillions managing the public health emergency, the economic emergency, and the challenge to social order posed by the disease. Yet there’s little indication that governments, especially the... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxPritchett is advocating for immigration reform and thinking big about global development economics. Lant Pritchett is like the lovable, crotchety uncle of development economics. He peppers colleagues, and policymakers, with annoying questions — specifically questions that are annoying because they hit on gaps in his targets’ worldview, gaps that they know about but are tempted to ignore. Now teaching at the London School of Economics, Pritchett spent... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxNamed after her daughter, the Zuri Nzilani Foundation hopes to end maternal mortality. Every year, the pregnancy condition preeclampsia kills 76,000 mothers and 500,000 infants. Ashley Muteti, a public relations specialist in Kenya, survived the condition — a hypertensive disorder that causes high blood pressure — twice in her 20s. Preeclampsia is one of the leading causes of maternal death globally, capable of causing internal bleeding, seizures,... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxThe physicist and co-founder of the QBism theory is shaking up his field. In the intricate and often bewildering world of quantum mechanics, Christopher Fuchs, a physicist at the University of Massachusetts Boston, stands out as a maverick thinker. QBism, the interpretation of quantum mechanics that he and some of his colleagues helped create, marks a bold divergence from traditional explanations of quantum reality, much like a... Read more ›
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Illustrations by Lauren Tamaki for VoxHere’s how the Future Perfect team determined the 2023 cohort of up-and-coming and unsung thought leaders. There are a million and one lists that highlight the shiny individuals and buzzy organizations that publications think we should care about. But what makes the Future Perfect 50 list starkly different from the typical celebrity-touting curation is that we’ve dedicated space to the often unsung heroes who are... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxWhittaker, the CEO of Signal, is also asking hard questions about artificial intelligence. New technologies can help connect us, but too often they come at a steep price: our privacy. The cost of constant interconnection is the threat of unwanted surveillance. Meredith Whittaker knows that all too well. A little over a year ago, she became the president of Signal, which runs a messaging app with end-to-end... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxThe CEO of the Council on Strategic Risks wants us to be better prepared for overlapping existential risks. The policy world in Washington, DC, is big on specialization. Either you’re a nukes person or a bioweapons person; a climate person or an AI person. All these people will, of course, concede that their area of specialization intersects deeply with others, that the future of pandemics, say, is... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxRitchie believes we can be the first generation to build a sustainable world. In many ways, 2023 has been a record-breaking year. Since January, the world experienced the hottest day on record, the continent of Africa faced its deadliest flood in over a century, and Canada withstood its most destructive wildfire season ever. This series of tragic headlines paints a dire picture. Yet, a wholly pessimistic view... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxDonti is showing how machine learning can be a powerful ally to address the climate crisis. When Priya Donti was asked to choose any superpower, she responded: “Maybe the ability to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and turn it into basalt.” Short of that, she’s working on turning a different kind of superhuman power into reality: using AI and machine learning to tackle climate change... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxA reliable quantum computer system could unleash truly amazing technological progress, as long as the engineers can get it to work. It’s hard enough to understand quantum computing, the potentially transformative next generation of computing. Unlike classical computers, which are powered by chips packed with billions of tiny transistors that process information in the binary form of a bit — either 0 or 1 — quantum computers... Read more ›
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Elon Musk laughs during an in-conversation event with Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on November 2, 2023, following the UK Artificial Intelligence Safety Summit. | Kirsty Wigglesworth/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesReed O’Connor is one of the most unapologetic Republican partisans in the entire federal judiciary. Twitter (the company that Elon Musk insists upon calling “X”) appears to be hemorrhaging advertisers. And it’s responded to this lost revenue by suing... Read more ›
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Rep. George Santos (R-NY) walks back to his office after debate on the House floor on a resolution to expel him from Congress, at the US Capitol on November 1, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesWhy the scandal-plagued Congress member could get expelled from the House this time. This week, scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos (R-NY) will likely face another House expulsion vote. He’s been here before. In May... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden greets Chinese leader Xi Jinping before a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week in Woodside, California, on November 15, 2023. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesThe nuclear stakes of putting too much trust in AI. The big news from the summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping is definitely the pandas. Twenty years from now, if anyone learns about this meeting... Read more ›
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Your beloved Diet Coke is indeed pricier than it used to be. | George Frey/Getty ImagesThe economy, explained by Diet Coke, kind of. Graham Starfelt has always been a Diet Coke drinker. He describes it as a “family tradition” — he picked it up from his mom. He doesn’t drink coffee, so it’s his only source of caffeine. He figures it’s healthy enough, or at least his doctor has never... Read more ›
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Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, and their Scream 6 castmates attend the world premiere in March 2023. | Jamie McCarthy/WireImageMelissa Barrera was fired from Scream 7 over her support of Palestine. Then Jenna Ortega left too. The revamped and ultra-successful Scream franchise may be dead. Over the long Thanksgiving weekend, actresses Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega reportedly left Scream 7 — one fired and one on her own accord. Spyglass, the... Read more ›
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How Xi Jinping became China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. Xi Jinping, president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, is one of the most powerful political figures in the world. By initiating an unprecedented third term as China’s leader in October 2022, Xi has signaled that he may plan to remain in power for life — making him the first Chinese leader since... Read more ›
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