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

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

    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.

    Chasing Virality Brought Us Fake News, Now Everything’s on Fire By uncritically embedding itself into social networks, did the media actually usher in the era of fake news?

    The Way We Work: A Reading List A crash course in new developments in employment and labor.

    The Most Subversive Way to Travel Perhaps the humble bicycle, a transportation mode that puts people in contact with one another and gives them back that control they seem to crave, offers a unique opportunity to remake those realities for the better.

    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

    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

    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

    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.

    Time for an Afrodigitalist Manifesto?

    An interview with Olu Niyi-Awosusi.
    Florence Okoye
    Jan 20, 2016 5 min read

    Humans in Space: A Reading List

    What to read if you want a crash course on human exploration of the heavens.
    How We Get To Next
    Aug 2, 2016 4 min read

    A Coal Miner’s Daughter & the End of Fossil Fuels

    In a world built by one kind of energy, it’s high time that we were bound for another.
    Abigail Hartstone
    Feb 25, 2016 11 min read