This week’s TAMIM Reading List brings together a captivating range of topics. Can AI persuade people to abandon conspiracy theories? Explore this, alongside the decline of Renaissance’s once-mighty hedge funds and the art of telling powerful stories. We also dive into the intriguing world of network theory, the cautionary tale of a man whose dream of restoring a cruise ship sank, and the rise of the Catholic Right’s celebrity conversion movement. Discover the hustlers scamming Citi Bikes, insights from 20 years of microplastics research, and Russia’s espionage efforts in the Arctic. These articles illuminate the unexpected intersections of technology, society, and geopolitics.
📚 Can AI Talk People Out of Conspiracy Theories?
📚 Renaissance’s shrinking hedge funds
📚 Seeing Like A Network Dark Forests, Dense Networks
📚 Behind the Catholic Right’s Celebrity-Conversion Industrial Complex
📚 The Hustlers Who Make $6,000 a Month by Scamming Citi Bikes
📚 Twenty years of microplastics pollution research—what have we learned?
