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

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

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

    The Aesthetics of Feeling Safe Rape is added to the lengthy list of the things a woman should keep in mind before going out, in addition to skin oil and bra lines and the effect that gravity can have on our hair.

    The Boundaries of Artificial Emotional Intelligence If our virtual assistants and emotional laborers are all turning out to be soothing, female-voiced AI, will it close certain gaps for human women? Or will it ratify them?

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

    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

    A Noxious Problem

    Smog in cities and smoke in the home cause a huge range of short- and long-term health conditions. Why is the world’s biggest public health crisis only getting worse?
    How We Get To Next
    Oct 24, 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.

    Cage-Free: Can 3D Printing Move Beyond Sexy Dresses?

    Feminine bodies have long been used in the world of design and fashion to show off new innovations–can 3D printing break the mold?
    Scott Smith
    Mar 12, 2015 2 min read

    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.
    Leigh Alexander
    Nov 29, 2016 6 min read

    $75 to Walk Again: Tackling Asia’s Prosthetics Crisis

    Instead of getting inappropriate secondhand prosthetics from the West, this charity is making their own bespoke ones in Laos.
    Lindsey Kennedy
    Aug 28, 2015 2 min read