The Power of Play: A Reading List A crash course on how fun and leisure can change the world

    Sartorial: A Reading List A crash course in how science and technology is changing how we express ourselves through style.

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

    Why You Should Be Eating Jellyfish to Save the Oceans Human disruption of the oceans is killing fish and leaving jellyfish to rule supreme. Could we make amends by adding them to our menus? Are you at least willing to take a bite, and try the taste?

    Let Robots Handle Your Emotional Burnout at Work But as robotics and computing evolve, some researchers foresee a future where technology can relieve the long-held emotional burden of some of these professions. They think we owe it to the service workforce to offer a new frontline of robotic protection. In fact, they think it’s far overdue–but does that actually mean just automating these jobs away?

    How We Got To: The Smart Fridge From Francis Bacon to the Large Hadron Collider.

    A Visual History of the Future

    Decades ago, artists’ imaginings formed high expectations about the world to come. Were these just fantasies–or was it the work of pioneers whose visions of the future actually helped to shape it?
    Darren Garrett
    May 30, 2018

    The Human Machine

    A series about the increasingly blurred lines between us and our machines.
    Ian Steadman
    Aug 23, 2017

    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.

    The Solar System’s Hottest Real Estate

    Where can we live other than Earth?
    Duncan Geere
    Oct 2, 2015 3 min read

    When Charts Go Weird: The Joy of Xenographics

    Xenographics can be fun alternatives to the classic bar, line, and pie chart trio–but they can also be more effective for certain kinds of data.
    Duncan Geere
    May 17, 2018 2 min read
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    Sometimes, Hacking the Climate Is a Good Idea

    Here are some of the ways it could, potentially, work.
    Duncan Geere
    May 29, 2015 3 min read