The forecaster who makes the most accurate predictions, as early as possible, can earn a cash prize and, perhaps more important, the esteem of the world’s most talented seers.
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Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
Seeing around the bend in the river—or even knowing the river ahead does indeed bend—can require the sort of leap of faith that made Vannevar Bush insist that shamans, priests and spiritual seers are the antecedents of today’s engineering stars.
Ted Taylor and Freeman Dyson, two other mid-century savants of the atom, spent years at General Atomic designing a gigantic spacecraft that would weigh thousands of tons and propel itself to Mars, Saturn, and the nearby stars with nuclear explosions.
Legal scholars said the current dispute will likely turn on technical questions about evidence and disclosure rather than the broader political arguments surrounding the case.
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Tony Plohetski,
Austin American Statesman,
19 Mar. 2026
The scholars argue that decisions involving life and human dignity must remain in human hands, warning that AI systems capable of selecting and executing targets fundamentally alter the moral nature of war.
Despite the back and forth among pundits and critics, Miami was able to put all the noise away and maintain focus to win the game.
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Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
19 Mar. 2026
Supporters of platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi argue that when markets reach enough activity, their collective wisdom becomes a kind of crystal ball — faster than experts, smarter than pundits, and better at identifying outcomes before the rest of the culture catches up.
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