To Board a Cruise Ship–and Never Get Off Meet the retirees who never stop moving.

    Was Gamification a Terrible Lie? Turning work into play was sold as a miracle for increasing productivity–but was that ever really plausible?

    Red Planet: How We’ll Govern Mars Technical and engineering obstacles are solvable when it comes to interplanetary colonization–the real challenge is governance.

    The Most Subversive Way to Travel Perhaps the humble bicycle, a transportation mode that puts people in contact with one another and gives them back that control they seem to crave, offers a unique opportunity to remake those realities for the better.

    Your Classroom Is Making You Fail Almost everyt traditional classroom design makes it harder to learn–yet the fixes are often simple.

    Batteries Not Excluded The supercomputer in your pocket and your next car rely on them–so what will we do if we run out of lithium?

    The ID Question

    Who decides who you are? You, or the world around you?
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    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
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    A vast stack of containers on a ship

    Postcards From a Supply Chain

    A series that traces consumer goods back through the global shipping system to their source.
    Dan Williams
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    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.

    The Media Can’t Sell Climate Change

    Readers are asking news outlets why they aren’t hitting harder on climate change. But who are they hoping to convince?
    Elizabeth Minkel
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    How to Make Public Transportation Safer for Women

    There’s no magic checklist for reducing gendered transit fear, but there are commonalities in the best solutions.
    Christine Ro
    Feb 8, 2017 7 min read

    5 Artifacts, Animations, and Charts on the Story of Vaccination

    Resistance to vaccination has existed ever since vaccination was first discovered.
    Hugh Garry
    Feb 2, 2015 1 min read