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End the year with some great reading — take a look at our team's favorite pieces of 2025.
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Noema’s Top 10 Reads Of 2025 | NOEMA
Our best longform journalism and essays from 2025.
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December 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
End the year with some great reading — take a look at our team's favorite pieces of 2025.
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“It turns out playing God is neither difficult nor expensive. For about $2,000, I can go online & order a decent microscope, a precision injection rig, & a vial of enough CRISPR-Cas9 — an enzyme-based genome-editing tool — to genetically edit a few thousand fish embryos.”
—Aryn Baker
—Aryn Baker
Editing Nature To Fix Our Failures | NOEMA
Gene editing may enable us to prevent a species from ever becoming extinct in the first place. But should we?
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December 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“It turns out playing God is neither difficult nor expensive. For about $2,000, I can go online & order a decent microscope, a precision injection rig, & a vial of enough CRISPR-Cas9 — an enzyme-based genome-editing tool — to genetically edit a few thousand fish embryos.”
—Aryn Baker
—Aryn Baker
Europe needs to stop pretending it's a neutral market in a world where digital infrastructure is geopolitical, @francescabria.bsky.social writes. It should act like what it is: a political project with a democratic mission.
Reclaiming Europe’s Digital Sovereignty | NOEMA
Europe can accept permanent technological dependency, or it can build democratic digital systems rooted in climate commitments, labor protections and social diversity.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Europe needs to stop pretending it's a neutral market in a world where digital infrastructure is geopolitical, @francescabria.bsky.social writes. It should act like what it is: a political project with a democratic mission.
“Emmanuel Macron, J.D. Vance & Berlin artist collectives may seem like unlikely allies, but they all agree that Europe’s ‘regulate first, build later (maybe)’ approach to AI is not working.”
—Benjamin Bratton
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—Benjamin Bratton
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Is European AI A Lost Cause? Not Necessarily. | NOEMA
If Europe wants to build a new AI Stack it should stop listening to critics who claim to lead the way but only offer resistance.
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December 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Emmanuel Macron, J.D. Vance & Berlin artist collectives may seem like unlikely allies, but they all agree that Europe’s ‘regulate first, build later (maybe)’ approach to AI is not working.”
—Benjamin Bratton
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—Benjamin Bratton
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“Instead of offering easy answers, thinking historically provides the intellectual equipment to engage with hard questions, a skill indispensable for navigating a future that will surely be as unpredictable as the past.”
—Francis Gavin
—Francis Gavin
The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically | NOEMA
To understand the world today, we must see it as actors of the past did: through a foggy windshield, not a rearview mirror, facing a future of radical uncertainty.
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December 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Instead of offering easy answers, thinking historically provides the intellectual equipment to engage with hard questions, a skill indispensable for navigating a future that will surely be as unpredictable as the past.”
—Francis Gavin
—Francis Gavin
Wishing you a very merry holiday season ✨🎄✨
December 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Wishing you a very merry holiday season ✨🎄✨
“The integration of AI into education is no longer hypothetical — it is well underway.”
Let’s use it to shape students for the better, Greg Easley argues.
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Let’s use it to shape students for the better, Greg Easley argues.
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Reimagining School In The Age Of AI | NOEMA
With thoughtful design, AI systems could move American classrooms beyond rigid curricula toward adaptive programs that respond to individual learners.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“The integration of AI into education is no longer hypothetical — it is well underway.”
Let’s use it to shape students for the better, Greg Easley argues.
www.noemamag.com/reimagining-...
Let’s use it to shape students for the better, Greg Easley argues.
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Noema’s Top 10 Reads Of 2025 | NOEMA
Our best longform journalism and essays from 2025.
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December 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“All our scientific stories — & the technologies we build from them — must always include us & our place within the tapestries of life.”
— @adamfrank4.bsky.social
— @adamfrank4.bsky.social
Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet) | NOEMA
To understand life, we must stop treating organisms like machines and minds like code.
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December 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“All our scientific stories — & the technologies we build from them — must always include us & our place within the tapestries of life.”
— @adamfrank4.bsky.social
— @adamfrank4.bsky.social
“In a surprisingly literal sense, we are indeed all made of light, as is everything we perceive or understand.”
—Swami Sarvapriyananda, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Carlo Rovelli
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—Swami Sarvapriyananda, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Carlo Rovelli
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Consciousness Across Three Worldviews | NOEMA
Central concepts in three different domains — Hindu tradition, computer science and quantum physics — find analogies and reflect one another.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“In a surprisingly literal sense, we are indeed all made of light, as is everything we perceive or understand.”
—Swami Sarvapriyananda, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Carlo Rovelli
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—Swami Sarvapriyananda, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Carlo Rovelli
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"Green technologies such as solar panels, wind turbines & EVs have major thermodynamic advantages over fossil fuels, the drilling, extraction, refining & transportation of which result in expensive energy losses at every distribution & conversion point."
— @bentleyallan.bsky.social
— @bentleyallan.bsky.social
The New Geopolitics Of The Green Transition | NOEMA
The only path forward for tackling the climate crisis hinges on cooperative industrial strategies to coordinate clean energy investment and infrastructure development.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Green technologies such as solar panels, wind turbines & EVs have major thermodynamic advantages over fossil fuels, the drilling, extraction, refining & transportation of which result in expensive energy losses at every distribution & conversion point."
— @bentleyallan.bsky.social
— @bentleyallan.bsky.social
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Great conversation with @mariannedhe.bsky.social about their @noemamag.com article on the history of air conditioning in the Gulf States.
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Air Conditioning and Climate Disaster ft. Marianne Dhenin
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December 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Great conversation with @mariannedhe.bsky.social about their @noemamag.com article on the history of air conditioning in the Gulf States.
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Remigration is word of the year, says @stephenkb.bsky.social in the FT. If you want to see the shape of things to come, check out our @noemamag.com
longread on Denmark, where remigration is now in the political mainstream.
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longread on Denmark, where remigration is now in the political mainstream.
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December 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Remigration is word of the year, says @stephenkb.bsky.social in the FT. If you want to see the shape of things to come, check out our @noemamag.com
longread on Denmark, where remigration is now in the political mainstream.
www.noemamag.com/inside-denma...
longread on Denmark, where remigration is now in the political mainstream.
www.noemamag.com/inside-denma...
May this season find you surrounded by light 🕎
December 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
May this season find you surrounded by light 🕎
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My article, From Statecraft to Soulcraft, was selected by @noemamag.com as one of its Top Ten Reads of 2025.
I’m proud of this piece. It’s onto something big: post-liberal states today—from China to Hungary to MAGA—make the Good Life core state business.
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I’m proud of this piece. It’s onto something big: post-liberal states today—from China to Hungary to MAGA—make the Good Life core state business.
www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...
Noema’s Top 10 Reads Of 2025 | NOEMA
Our best longform journalism and essays from 2025.
www.noemamag.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
My article, From Statecraft to Soulcraft, was selected by @noemamag.com as one of its Top Ten Reads of 2025.
I’m proud of this piece. It’s onto something big: post-liberal states today—from China to Hungary to MAGA—make the Good Life core state business.
www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...
I’m proud of this piece. It’s onto something big: post-liberal states today—from China to Hungary to MAGA—make the Good Life core state business.
www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...
Check out our favorite artwork from the past year, created by artists from all around the world 🗺️
Noema’s Top Artwork Of 2025 | NOEMA
Here’s our favorite artwork from the past year.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Check out our favorite artwork from the past year, created by artists from all around the world 🗺️
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In a world where power is misused, public morality has become slippery and dishonesty lurches sickeningly through public speech, animals can offer vital lessons for human ethics, political wisdom and social health [ @jay-griffiths.bsky.social @noemamag.com ] www.noemamag.com/the-moral-au...
The Moral Authority Of Animals | NOEMA
For millennia before we showed up on the scene, social animals — those living in societies and cooperating for survival — had been creating cultures imbued with ethics.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In a world where power is misused, public morality has become slippery and dishonesty lurches sickeningly through public speech, animals can offer vital lessons for human ethics, political wisdom and social health [ @jay-griffiths.bsky.social @noemamag.com ] www.noemamag.com/the-moral-au...
“These are the last days of social media, not because we lack content, but because the attention economy has neared its limit — we have exhausted the capacity to care. There is more to watch, read, click & react to than ever before — an endless buffet of stimulation."
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“These are the last days of social media, not because we lack content, but because the attention economy has neared its limit — we have exhausted the capacity to care. There is more to watch, read, click & react to than ever before — an endless buffet of stimulation."
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
Check out our best longform journalism & essays of the year, with stories covering everything from the last days of social media to the unseen fury of solar storms.
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#reading #longform
Noema’s Top 10 Reads Of 2025 | NOEMA
Our best longform journalism and essays from 2025.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“Vietnam’s third stack is more than a hedge against platform dependence: it is a rehearsal for a future in which AI agents — trained locally, governed modularly — enact a worldview not defined by Silicon Valley or Beijing.”
— @digitaldang.bsky.social
— @digitaldang.bsky.social
A Third Path For AI Beyond The US-China Binary | NOEMA
What if the future of AI isn’t defined by Washington or Beijing, but by improvisation elsewhere?
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December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“Vietnam’s third stack is more than a hedge against platform dependence: it is a rehearsal for a future in which AI agents — trained locally, governed modularly — enact a worldview not defined by Silicon Valley or Beijing.”
— @digitaldang.bsky.social
— @digitaldang.bsky.social
“If spires & arches & ancient cavern churches no longer give shape to our worship, what does? Can we still build a temple worthy of God?”
— @johnwlast.bsky.social
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— @johnwlast.bsky.social
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The Vanishing Art Of Building Sacred Spaces | NOEMA
In the age of the algorithm, the West has lost its philosophy of spiritual architecture, and with it the language of holy enchantment.
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December 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“If spires & arches & ancient cavern churches no longer give shape to our worship, what does? Can we still build a temple worthy of God?”
— @johnwlast.bsky.social
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— @johnwlast.bsky.social
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“We [must] figure out how our contemporary communication system can strengthen democracy, rather than myopically focus on correcting falsehoods.”
— @zevesanderson.com & Scott Babwah Brennen
— @zevesanderson.com & Scott Babwah Brennen
We Failed The Misinformation Fight. Now What? | NOEMA
Defending democracy in the digital age will require moving beyond the focus of fighting online misinformation.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“We [must] figure out how our contemporary communication system can strengthen democracy, rather than myopically focus on correcting falsehoods.”
— @zevesanderson.com & Scott Babwah Brennen
— @zevesanderson.com & Scott Babwah Brennen
“Like others who think differently & come from outside the insider establishment, Frank Gehry rebelled against the custodians of proper & hallowed ways.”
—Nathan Gardels
#frankgehry #architecture
—Nathan Gardels
#frankgehry #architecture
The Creative Intuition Of Frank Gehry | NOEMA
“I’m not a theorist, but a vacuum cleaner.”
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December 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“Like others who think differently & come from outside the insider establishment, Frank Gehry rebelled against the custodians of proper & hallowed ways.”
—Nathan Gardels
#frankgehry #architecture
—Nathan Gardels
#frankgehry #architecture
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Highlighting Best of 2025 stories from @orionmagazine.bsky.social, @emergencemagazine.bsky.social, @atmosmag.bsky.social, @aeon.co, @bittersouth.bsky.social, @thebeliever.net, @noemamag.com, and @frankchimero.com.
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Highlighting Best of 2025 stories from @orionmagazine.bsky.social, @emergencemagazine.bsky.social, @atmosmag.bsky.social, @aeon.co, @bittersouth.bsky.social, @thebeliever.net, @noemamag.com, and @frankchimero.com.
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December 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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