President & CEO of Outrider Foundation (@OutriderFdn) & author of 25+ books, including "The Doomsday Clock at 75" & https://xitter.cf/t.co/xeyfjzoApZ
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Please join me Saturday with the phenomenal Christine Wolf & Sarah Leibov at Secret World Books in Highland Park!
We’ll talk about “Relative Strangers,” which explores “the transformative experience of finding unknown biological relatives & uncovering family secrets.”
Details:
Here's my interview with @hankgreen at the @MediaFunders' Forum. We talked about content creators, journalism & the future.
Our conversation starts here:
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Or watch the full video, with Hank's stellar speech:
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At the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, where Trevor Noah is in conversation with Wawira Njiru, Kenyan philanthropist and CEO of Food 4 Education
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Now: Watching @BeaFihn lead a panel about AI weapons at the excellent International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. #IJF #IJF26
With Anna Hehir, Richard Lennane (@DikiLennane), & @ElkeSchwarz
journalismfestival.com/progr…
The Independent Atlas Journalism – a sortable & searchable database of 1,001 digital journalism creators – is LIVE.
Congrats to Justin Bank (@bankonjustin), Liz Kelly Nelson (@LizAtProjectC) & Ryan Y. Kellett (@rkellett).
→ Explore the Atlas:
journalismatlas.com/
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THURSDAY. ⏰
Join @bulletinatomic & Outrider Foundation (including @robertkelder) for an expert discussion on AI tech + nuclear command and control.
📆 Feb. 19, 12:45 p.m. CST
👉 pages.thebulletin.org/ai-in-…
Looking forward to hosting an event on a New Media Code of Ethics at the Future of Nonfiction Video, put on by The Video Consortium.
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Check it out:
videoconsortium.org/programs…
A room full of love — a packed house at the Metro — to send off the great Tony Fitzpatrick.
Ike Reilly showed up with his sons to “Put a Little Love in It (According to John).”
A powerful, thoughtful piece by @lesleymmblume & @chloeeshrager in the @BulletinAtomic about the radiation impacts from nuclear weapons testing:
thebulletin.org/2025/11/trum…
Thanks again to everyone who joined us at the 2025 Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit, which was a huge hit! More to come.
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outrider.org/conference/2025…
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CNS is very excited to partner with Outrider, @OutriderFdn, for the Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit!
Join us at the Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit on October 9-10!
This free, two-day event will focus on how #nuclearweapons issues intersect with AI, community health, #climatechange, local economies, and the #environment.
🔗 APPLY NOW: outrider.org/conference/2025…
Join me & author Alec @nevalalee at @PrintersRowFest this Saturday at 10 a.m. to talk about his biography of Nobel Prize winner Luis W. Alvarez:
"Collisions A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs"
Details:
outrider.org/events/collisio…
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‘Boom!’: The insane drunken mess that John Waters called “the best failed art film ever” dlvr.it/TMXR03
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It's *crucial* to consider how to communicate nuclear weapons risk across different demographics. @EmLBelcher shares how to navigate gender and age, plus the statistic that stunned across all groups.
📽️ Clip from a panel hosted by @outriderfdn
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"The people who study nuclear war for a living are certain that artificial intelligence will soon power the deadly weapons. None of them are quite sure what, exactly, that means."
Read the story from Outrider fellow @mjgault for @WIRED 🤖 💥
wired.com/story/nuclear-expe…
The Nobel Peace Conference and Festival yesterday was pretty astounding.
My panel with atomic bomb survivor Masako Wada (Nihon Hidankyo) and activists Penelope Lea and Daniel Högsta (ICAN) was enlightening and well-received.
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I also had a nice chat with Stefan Löfven, the former Prime Minister of Sweden, and so many hard-working peace activists.
After the conference, the outdoor festival featured music by Norwegian music legend Lars Lillo-Stenberg and others.
If you want to see the panel(s), visit:
nobelpeacecenter.org/en/live…
(My panel starts 2 hours and 27 minutes into the program.)
“I Survived an Atomic Bomb. It’s Time to End the Nuclear Threat,”
from Dr. Terumi Tanaka co-chair of Nobel Peace Prize winners Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations.
@nytimes
nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opini…
Watch live now:
The Nobel Peace Conference in Oslo, recognizing Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization which collects the stories of atomic bomb survivors.
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