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

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

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

    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.

    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.

    Fowl Plague

    Pandemics have threatened humanity in the past–and avian influenza may well be the next one due.
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    Aug 4, 2017
    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
    Jan 21, 2015

    Isla del Encanto

    Puerto Ricans have always found opportunity in the limits placed upon them. Exploring the island’s agricultural future–from community gardens to research hubs, bakers to growers to distillers.
    Alicia Kennedy
    Apr 16, 2019

    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.

    From the Andes to Outer Space

    How one company saved Argentina’s space program.
    Martin Etchegaray
    Apr 30, 2015 10 min read

    Emotion Science Keeps Getting More Complicated. Can AI Keep Up?

    What are emotions? This isn’t just an academic exercise. It’s central to the question of whether we’ll ever build an artificial intelligence that experiences emotions just like we do.
    Richard Firth-Godbehere
    Nov 28, 2018 10 min read

    Comic: A Factory in a Petri Dish

    If and when humans move to Mars, some of our most important machines will not be robotic–they’ll be biological.
    Daniel Locke
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