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?
The Human Machine
A series about the increasingly blurred lines between us and our machines.
The Roots of an Epidemic
From apartheid labor policies to everyday sexism, socio-political issues influence the spread of TB disease and the effectiveness of health responses. To tackle the epidemic, we need systemic changes.
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.
Artificial Intelligence: A Reading List
A crash course in human attempts to build machines better than nature’s own.
Let’s Not (Accidentally) Build Depressed Robots
In trying to build machines that can experience “real” emotions, we might end up creating intelligent beings as mentally fragile as ourselves.