Will It Ever Be Ethical for Athletes to Edit Their Genes?

Will It Ever Be Ethical for Athletes to Edit Their Genes?

Françoise Baylis on the Problematic New Science of
"Building Better Humans"

By Françoise Baylis | September 16, 2019

The Problem(s) with Goodreads.

The Problem(s) with Goodreads.

By Jonny Diamond | September 5, 2019

Who Has Time to Read? And Where? And on What?

Who Has Time to Read? And Where? And on What?

Leah Price Offers a Brief History of the "Traveling" Book

By Leah Price | September 5, 2019

A robot read 3.5 million books to find we describe women by appearance, and men by virtue.

A robot read 3.5 million books to find we describe women by appearance, and men by virtue.

By Jonny Diamond | August 28, 2019

If Planet Death Doesn't Get Us, an AI Superintelligence Most Certainly Will

If Planet Death Doesn't Get Us, an AI Superintelligence Most Certainly Will

“It doesn’t share intuition with us, or history or anything.”

By Bryan Walsh | August 26, 2019

Can Digital Activism Solve the Information Crisis?

Can Digital Activism Solve the Information Crisis?

Eli Pariser, Author of The Filter Bubble
Talks to Andrew on Keen On

By Keen On | August 23, 2019

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Cruel calculator will tell you how many extra books you could read a year if you quit social media.

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False Freedom: Sharing the Scraps from the Perilous Gig Economy

By Steven Greenhouse | August 7, 2019

The Utopian Dream and Surveillance Nightmare of Electronic Money

The Utopian Dream and Surveillance Nightmare of Electronic Money

How Much Do Our Credit Cards Define Us?

By Finn Brunton | August 1, 2019

On the Human Spaceflight Program That Made Apollo Possible

On the Human Spaceflight Program That Made Apollo Possible

Gemini: Fine-Tuning the Techniques to Send People to the Moon

By James Donovan | July 19, 2019

How Space Technology is Revolutionizing Archaeology

How Space Technology is Revolutionizing Archaeology

Sarah Parcak on Finding the Past in Satellite Imagery

By Sarah Parcak | July 16, 2019

When Loneliness Leads to Sex Robots: A Study in Teledildonics

When Loneliness Leads to Sex Robots: A Study in Teledildonics

Dianne Araral on A.I., Robo-Shaming, and Our Lonely World

By Dianne Araral | June 28, 2019

Confronting My Well Educated, Father-of-Six, White Supremacist Troll

Confronting My Well Educated, Father-of-Six, White Supremacist Troll

Some Trolls Are More Dangerous Than Others

By Ginger Gorman | June 26, 2019

The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth

The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth

Frank Malina's Scientific Dreams Were as Radical as His Politics

By Fraser MacDonald | June 26, 2019

How an Asteroid Could Destroy the World <em>Before</em> Impact

How an Asteroid Could Destroy the World Before Impact

In the Event of a Collision, Humanity Would Not Fare Well

By Gordon L. Dillow | June 20, 2019

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