The "New Golden Age": The Return of a Reformist Approach to American Engineering Education in the Age of AI
美国发明了极紫外光刻，却造不了光刻机；开创了锂电池，却被亚洲主导供应链。当《科学：新的黄金时代》宣告大学不再是唯一家园，被悬置71年的格林特报告命题重新浮现：工程教育的目标是培养能造物的工程师，不是懂科学的学者。
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Blind Man, Blind Horse, Deep Pool at Midnight: Human Civilization Enters a Moment of All-In Wager
Humanity simultaneously faces global warming, ecosystem collapse, geopolitical rivalry, space expansion, and an AI arms race — multiple complex mega-systems interweave and erupt, while no single brain or institution can see the whole picture. This resembles a devil's wager: the stake is the survival of civilization.
Can Large Language Models Derive Relativity? — And a Discussion on the AGI Criterion
如果给大模型输入1905年之前人类全部物理学知识，它能推导出狭义相对论吗？Google DeepMind最新立场论文的答案是否定的——因为科学发现中最关键的跳跃，来自大模型永远不会有的东西：感官体验。
The Singularity Is Right Now—AGI Is Taking Shape
2026年7月，王虹用127页人工证明拿了菲尔兹奖，AI用3页解决了一个半世纪未解猜想。这不是人机对决，而是两种智能的分界线正在浮现——那条线就是：能否自主生核。
When the Programmers Are Gone, How Will Humanity Understand AI?
花四天和AI搏斗修复网站后，悉妙说了一句让我醍醐灌顶的话：代码是AI的母语。当所有人都不再学这门语言，人类用什么参与权力的谈判？
How One Organ Won the Planet: The Power of Specialization
每种最终占据生态位的物种，都至少在一个方向上特化到了极致。人类的特化不在牙齿、不在皮毛、不在速度——而在于一个持续膨胀了近七百万年的大脑。
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The Musk Narrow-Window Thesis and the Space Economy S-Curve of a Resource-Bound Earth
地球城经济的S曲线正在触顶；太空经济的S曲线需要精心启动。地球的资源尚有余量，但余量正在以可预见的速度减少。
The Wade Paradox and the Sacred Wager: Don’t Destroy That Lightspeed Ship—AI May Be Humanity’s Last Hope
维德悖论揭示：在既有的决策框架内，所有"合理"的选择都指向毁灭。神圣赌约说：唯一的出路是押注超级智能。
How to Learn in the AI Era Without Being Left Behind—Is Knowledge Really No Longer Important?
AI时代不是知识不再重要——是知识的重要性更加突显。没有知识的人，提不出好问题。
The Twice-Marginalized University: Can It Save Itself This Time?
2026年5月，可汗学院、TED和ETS联合成立Khan TED Institute——一个真正的学位替代方案。大学被二次边缘化这件事，爆发了。
Why Space Manufacturing Is So Urgent: Lessons from Amdahl's Law
Amdahl's Law teaches a brutal lesson: a system's speed is capped by its slowest component. For space economy, that bottleneck is manufacturing. Without orbital factories, no amount of cheap launch capacity will unlock the solar system.
Asteroid Deflection: Could Saving Earth Backfire?
Deflecting an asteroid with kinetic impact might save Earth—or it might fragment the object into multiple deadly projectiles. The physics is simple; the consequences are anything but.
Who Are You: Marx and the Sum of All Social Relations
Marx said humans are the sum of their social relations. Wolf children, Alzheimer's patients, and a 104-year-old ecologist who chose assisted suicide—all test the limits of this definition in different, haunting ways.
Returning Life to the Soil: Civilizational Redemption in the Post-Goldilocks Era
土壤是个活系统。工业化农业将其"介质化"导致失活。还土壤以生命，是从根基上拯救文明的杠杆点。
The Third Toilet Revolution: An Urgent and Daunting Task
On the road to a sustainable civilization, there are many unavoidable hurdles—and the toilet is one of them. The second toilet revolution solved urban sanitation problems but completely severed the land's nutrient cycle. The third toilet revolution centers on moving from linear back to circular.
What Price Will Humanity Pay for Mining the Deep Ocean Floor?
地球生态系统已经如此脆弱，人类再不能做巨婴，该长大了。深海采矿正在逼近——而海洋的三大系统都经不起这样的强刺激。