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In 2024, I’m celebrating TEN YEARS of freelancing full-time! 🥳

To mark the occasion, I’m giving a talk at UCL on 16th May where I’ll share some secrets on how to get by in this crazy industry. Details here:

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It's a lovely thing to see scientists talk like this about the natural world they study (Chris is an eminent astrophysicist)

A nice example from Max Roser of a positive development for humanity that's too slow to make the front page, but nonetheless is real and worth celebrating

First spot of The Long View in the wild (thanks to my brother Ed Fisher!)

What can we learn about our relationship with technology today by studying our deep history?

It was a pleasure to chat to Tom Chatfield about his fascinating new book Wise Animals for BBC Future bbc.com/future/article…

I loved writing this piece on the self-transcendent effects of viewing a solar eclipse - and other awe-filled experiences - featuring some very cool research from Sean Goldy

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I like this: a long-term lens to make a point about the present. In this case, a researcher calculated that everyone in Japan will have the surname Sato by 2531. Can you suggest other examples? ie 'If we keep doing X, then in ~100-1,000yrs, Y will happen'? theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

In The Long View, journalist Richard Fisher explores how our sense of time can be shortened by cultural pressures and psychological habits – and how to think longer term.

Book your tickets at: guernseyliteraryfestival.com/events/richard…

This event is sponsored by Dorey Financial Modeling.

#GsyLitFest

Happy paperback publication day to THE LONG VIEW by Richard Fisher!

In a modern world entrapped by short-termisms, changing the way we think about time often feels impossible…
This book makes a great case as to why we should widen our perceptions.

The UK paperback edition of The Long View is out today! Still all in on thinking long, but in dimensions a bit less wide and tall hachette.co.uk/titles/richard…

A coincidental double anniversary: it's 50 years since Robert Nozick's 'experience machine' proposal and 25 years since The Matrix. Deena Mousa on what Nozick got right and wrong about people's attitudes towards simulation vs reality bbc.com/future/article…

I very much enjoyed this conversation about deep time, long-term thinking (and its dangers) with the thoughtful theologian Tim Middleton in Oxford. Do have a listen!

I wrote about geological disagreement over the Anthropocene's definition bbc.com/future/article…

The complicated legacy of the terraforming project in Oregon that inspired Dune. By me, for BBC Future. Thanks to Sally Hacker, Joana Gaspar de Freitas, Dina Pavlis and Veronika Kratz for their insights!
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#DuneMovie #DunePart2

In my latest for FT Weekend I journeyed into the landscapes of “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” - to try to locate the mountains in the famous painting, and to try to stand where the wanderer stands. A joy to write this one!

Link here 👇

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Painting here 👇

'The world is awful — The world is much better — The world can be much better', is a short article on why we are building Our World in Data.

→ ourworldindata.org/much-better-aw…

Today I've updated the data and made entirely new visualizations for it, as it is one of my most-read articles.

Twenty days until publication, and finished copies of Wise Animals have finally arrived. I'm so excited about this book. It's by far my most most personal and ambitious. If you're interested in reviewing, or having me write about its themes, let me know! panmacmillan.com/authors/tom-ch…

Today, on an organ in a church in Halberstadt, Germany, a new note will be added to a performance of John Cage's As Slow as Possible that began in 02001 and will not finish until 02640 – a span of 639 years.