Saul Perlmutter Journalist Profile

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Human progress in the Trump era

Nov 27, 2024 | thejakartapost.com | Tawakkol Karman |Saul Perlmutter |Brian Schmidt

aving just been elected president of the United States for a second time, Donald Trump is poised to reshape international relations at a critical moment. Navigating this new and dangerous era of uncertainty requires reflecting on the progress we have made, not least to seek insights into how to overcome the challenges ahead. The past 80 years have been the most peaceful in history.
El progreso humano en la era Trump

Nov 27, 2024 | datanoticias.com | Saul Perlmutter

Los últimos 80 años han sido los más pacíficos de la historia. Se han logrado grandes avances en materia de igualdad de género, y según el Foro Económico Mundial, la brecha de género mundial se ha cerrado en un 68,5%. La alfabetización ha aumentado enormemente: el 87% de los adultos en todo el mundo sabe leer y escribir (en comparación con apenas el 36% en 1950). La longevidad ha mejorado drásticamente: la esperanza de vida media se sitúa hoy en 73 años, frente a los 66 años de principios de siglo.
Human Progress In The Trump Era| Countercurrents

Nov 26, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Tawakkol Karman |Saul Perlmutter |Brian Schmidt |Otto Scharmer

by Tawakkol Karman, Saul Perlmutter, and Brian SchmidtSYDNEY – Having just been elected president of the United States for a second time, Donald Trump is poised to reshape international relations at a critical moment. Navigating this new and dangerous era of uncertainty requires reflecting on the progress we have made, not least to seek insights into how to overcome the challenges ahead. The past 80 years have been the most peaceful in history.
Human progress in the Trump era - Taipei Times

Nov 24, 2024 | taipeitimes.com | Tawakkol Karman |Saul Perlmutter |Brian Schmidt

By Tawakkol Karman, Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt Having just been elected president of the US for a second time, Donald Trump is poised to reshape international relations at a critical moment. Navigating this new and dangerous era of uncertainty requires reflecting on the progress we have made, not least to seek insights into how to overcome the challenges ahead. The past 80 years have been the most peaceful in history.
The Challenge and Necessity of a Shared Reality

Mar 28, 2024 | time.com | Saul Perlmutter |John Campbell |Robert MacCoun

IdeasPerlmutter and Campbell are professors at the University of California, Berkeley, and MacCoun is a professor at Stanford University. They are the coauthors of the forthcoming book Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of NonsenseAll animals, including humans, have limitations in how they find out about the world. And we humans invent instrumentation to correct for weaknesses in our perceptions of the world.
The Challenge and Necessity of a Shared Reality

Mar 27, 2024 | msn.com | Saul Perlmutter |John Campbell |Robert MacCoun

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'Third Millennium Thinking': How to use scientific tools to solve everyday problems

Mar 26, 2024 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Saul Perlmutter |John Campbell |Robert MacCoun

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Saul Perlmutter, philosophy professor John Campbell, and social psychologist Robert MacCoun teach a course at the University of California Berkeley on using scientific tools to approach everyday problems. They’ve now turned that course into the book “Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense.” Perlmutter joins host Scott Tong to talk about the book.
Overconfidence can sabotage your career

Mar 26, 2024 | fastcompany.com | Saul Perlmutter |John Campbell |Robert MacCoun

By Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell, and Robert MacCounlong ReadExpert overconfidence can have grave consequences. After the Challenger space shuttle exploded in 1986, an investigation found that NASA had officially predicted that there would be one failure in 100,000 launches—about the same odds we considered for getting hit by a car crossing Hearst Ave in the last chapter. Yet other evidence revealed that NASA had strong evidence against this rosy projection.
'Third Millennium Thinking': How To Use Scientific Tools To Solve Everyday Problems - NPR

Mar 26, 2024 | everand.com | Saul Perlmutter |John Campbell |Robert MacCoun

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Saul Perlmutter, philosophy professor John Campbell, and social psychologist Robert MacCoun teach a course at the University of California Berkeley on using scientific tools to approach everyday problems. They’ve now turned that course into the book “Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense.”Perlmutter joins host Scott Tong to talk about the book.
State funds development of first-of-its-kind police misconduct database

Jun 29, 2023 | universityofcalifornia.edu | Saul Perlmutter

California allocated $6.87 million in its 2023-24 budget to UC Berkeley to develop the Police Records Access Project, a first-of-its-kind, state-wide database of police misconduct and use-of-force records. Berkeley’s Institute for Data Science, Graduate School of Journalism and partners will collect, curate and make accessible records that a 2019 state law unlocked for the public.