The Roots of an Epidemic From apartheid labor policies to everyday sexism, socio-political issues influence the spread of TB disease and the effectiveness of health responses. To tackle the epidemic, we need systemic changes.

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

    It’s Time For a New Kind of Power Fantasy Games can–and must–offer different definitions of fantasy, including fantasies of safety and peace.

    The Way We Work: A Reading List A crash course in new developments in employment and labor.

    Beats: Food Food structures our day, and food systems shape our world

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

    The Roots of an Epidemic

    From apartheid labor policies to everyday sexism, socio-political issues influence the spread of TB disease and the effectiveness of health responses. To tackle the epidemic, we need systemic changes.
    Paula Akugizibwe
    Apr 11, 2019

    Breaking the Cycle

    The future of reproductive health in India, from early ideas about population control to on-the-ground interventions happening now, to a world where men and women share contraceptive responsibility.
    Hannah Harris Green
    Sep 26, 2018

    The ID Question

    Who decides who you are? You, or the world around you?
    Anjali Ramachandran
    Nov 22, 2017

    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.

    Powered by Sunshine, Funded by Everyone

    Putting solar panels on school roofs has widers benefits for their communities and kids.
    Alice Bell
    Nov 17, 2014 2 min read

    Are You Being Misled by Your Quantified Self?

    Are we letting the technology that records our lives shape what we see as important about them?
    Jessica Harneyford
    Oct 21, 2016 7 min read

    The Evolving Battle for Urban Public Space

    Social spaces are the beating heart of our cities–and a constant source of conflict and tension.
    James Gleave
    Apr 25, 2016 4 min read