The Human Machine

A series about the increasingly blurred lines between us and our machines.
Ian Steadman

The ID Question

Who decides who you are? You, or the world around you?
Anjali Ramachandran

A Noxious Problem

Smog in cities and smoke in the home cause a huge range of short- and long-term health conditions. Why is the world’s biggest public health crisis only getting worse?
How We Get To Next

Beats: Space

Space is where we project our dreams–and our nightmares–of the future.

Beats: Food

Food structures our day, and food systems shape our world

Beats: Disability

“Disable” is an active verb, and disability describes the social and environmental barriers that prevent access just as much as an individual body’s physical reality.

Beats: Health

Access to health care is as much a matter of public policy as it is the size of a person’s pocketbook; within a doctor’s office, many factors affect the quality of treatment.

Humanizing Data: Highlights from EYEO 2018

A dispatch from the 2018 edition of the conference on technology and culture.
Duncan Geere
2 min read

Noise Pollution Is Making the Oceans Unbearable for Underwater Life

Every ten years, noise from commercial shipping is doubling. But studying what that noise is doing to ocean creatures in situ is fiendishly difficult.
Rose George
4 min read

Can a Computer Learn to Dance?

The biggest problem for robots understanding dance is the same as for humans–notation.
Gillian Rhodes
4 min read