Health

The (Nearly) Unstoppable Success Story of Global Life Expectancy

But dig into the numbers and the picture becomes more complicated–and potentially troubling.
Duncan Geere
Jun 10, 2016 3 min read

Can We Learn to Live Without Death?

I have a friend, Adam, who’s convinced he’ll live forever. To the casual observer this might seem unlikely. Adam smokes and...
Duncan Jefferies
Jun 8, 2016 6 min read

Vital Signs: A Reading List

A crash source in the future of human health.
How We Get To Next
Jun 1, 2016 4 min read

I Tried Dieting With a Chatbot. I Hated It.

"Here I am, inside a chat app, with no agency to ask the most basic questions about how the product works."
Abigail Hartstone
May 18, 2016 10 min read

From IVF to Designer Babies, Technology Is Not Colorblind

How Afrofuturism can help create a more equal world for black bodies of the future.
Princess Ojiaku
Jan 28, 2016 7 min read

The Startup Tackling Women’s Health in Uganda

HerHealth Uganda wants to give rural women control over their own healthcare.
Florence Okoye
Jan 14, 2016 4 min read

How Ants Will Lead Us to New Antibiotics

You ant seen nothing yet
Alexander Sehmer
Aug 13, 2015 2 min read

5 Artifacts, Animations, and Charts on the Story of Vaccination

Resistance to vaccination has existed ever since vaccination was first discovered.
Hugh Garry
Feb 2, 2015 1 min read

Walking While Working–in the Wild

This movement activist wants people to get solar-powered desks for working while hiking.
Scott Smith
Dec 9, 2014 2 min read

Mapping the Ebola Outbreak Outside a London Pub

The techniques used today to fight Ebola are the same used in 1858 to stop a London cholera outbreak.
Matt Locke
Nov 11, 2014 26 sec read
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