• Technology

    Bikes

    Reading the Literature of the Bicycle As I Learned
    to Ride One

    By Rhian Sasseen  January 27, 2021
    Astrophysics

    An Astrophysicist’s Detective Story: On That Giant Space Object That Passed Through the Solar System

    By Avi Loeb  January 26, 2021
    The Hub

    Cynthia Erivo narrating Jane Austen? Okay Spotify, we’re listening.

    By Walker Caplan  January 25, 2021
    AI

    From the Golden Age to… Roombas: 8 Essential Books About Artificial Intelligence

    By Michael Wooldridge  January 25, 2021
    The Hub

    Wattpad has been sold to Naver, Korea’s leading internet platform, for $600 million.

    By Walker Caplan  January 22, 2021
    News and Culture

    Why AI Can’t Properly Translate Proust—Yet

    By Michael Wooldridge  January 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Meet Midst, a new writing tool that reveals the editing process behind poems.

    By Walker Caplan  January 19, 2021
    Religion

    Conflagration and Catastrophe: On Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Doom of COVID-19

    By Daniel Allen Cox  January 19, 2021
    The Hub

    A productivity tool company has solved writing by . . . reinventing the typewriter.

    By Walker Caplan  January 15, 2021
    The Hub

    If you miss visiting the library, try the Internet Archive’s new virtual browsing tool.

    By Walker Caplan  January 11, 2021
    Mathematics

    Sometimes You Just Need a Math Prodigy to Explain the Quotidian Uses of the Fourth Dimension

    By Milo Beckman  January 8, 2021
    Keen On

    Should We Be Optimists or Pessimists About the Future?

    By Keen On  January 8, 2021
    Climate Crisis Readings

    Activists, Scientists, and Poets: Your Climate Readings for January

    By Amy Brady  January 7, 2021
    Technology

    On Artificial Intelligence, White Supremacy, and the Military-Industrial Complex

    By Yarden Katz  December 18, 2020
    Social Media

    TFW Your Twitter Account Gets Stolen and There’s Nothing You Can Do

    By Rob Spillman  December 17, 2020
    Keen On

    Could We Design the Internet to Function Like a Public Park?

    By Keen On  December 17, 2020
    News and Culture

    Digital Technology Has Made Day-to-Day Living a Game

    By Alessandro Baricco  December 10, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Perils of the Hype Machine When It Comes to Science and Tech

    By New Books Network  December 10, 2020
    Keen On

    How Can Machines Learn Human Values?

    By Keen On  December 7, 2020
    New Books Network

    On Big Tech’s Moligopolists, the 21st Century’s Robber Barons

    By New Books Network  December 7, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, November Edition

    By Book Marks  November 25, 2020
    Keen On

    On the Moral Questions Tech Creators Aren’t Equipped to Answer

    By Keen On  November 16, 2020
    The Hub

    Your next book recommendation will come from a bot living under the Bixby Creek Bridge.

    By Corinne Segal  November 12, 2020
    Keen On

    Make Twitter Fun Again… By Taking Breaks from Twitter

    By Keen On  November 12, 2020
    Cities

    Gotham, Metropolis, Shanghai, Warsaw: On the Anxieties of Cities

    By Ben Wilson  November 12, 2020
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