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

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

    Where We Live and How We Die What a year of death looks like around the world.

    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.

    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?

    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?

    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

    Fowl Plague

    Pandemics have threatened humanity in the past–and avian influenza may well be the next one due.
    Duncan Geere
    Aug 4, 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.

    Instructions Not Included: How Usability Made the User Guide Redundant

    The death of the instruction manual has long been on the cards.
    Ken Banks
    Sep 2, 2014 1 min read

    Going Places: A Reading List

    A crash course in the impact of transportation technology on the modern world.
    How We Get To Next
    Feb 7, 2017 4 min read

    Watch: How to Power a Refugee Camp

    New ways of bringing energy access to everyone who needs it, wherever they are.
    Jessica Bishopp
    Feb 19, 2016 2 min read