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

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

    The Future of Money Depends on Busting Fairy Tales About Its Past Want to disrupt finance? Start here.

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

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

    Scientists Like Me Are Studying Your Tweets–Are You OK With That? As researchers, we have a responsibility to acknowledge that factors like the type of data, the creator of that data, and our intended use for the data are important when it comes to using public information.

    Disability Futures

    We can’t think about the future-of health, of technology, of community-without centering disability; it cuts across every other kind of experience. Disability is central to all of our lives.
    Kenny Fries
    Apr 30, 2019
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    Postcards From a Supply Chain

    A series that traces consumer goods back through the global shipping system to their source.
    Dan Williams
    Jan 21, 2015

    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

    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.

    Making Music Hackable Again

    A musical instrument designed to be hacked and modified into something new and unexpected.
    Alice Bell
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    Tinder for Your Fridge?

    How apps can help you cut down on food waste.
    Alice Bell
    Sep 2, 2014 2 min read

    NASA Turns to Games For A New Generation of Space Art

    NASA spent the 20th century asking illustrators to imagine the future of space exploration. To inspire a new generation of engineers, scientists, and astronauts, they are turning to games developers.
    Paul Dean
    Jan 11, 2019 3 min read