One Last Thing

Online Shopping For More Than Just Good Value

Just as none of us has exactly the same combination of shopping habits and values, what we've lost as shopping becomes...
Sulagna Misra
5 min read

Watch: The Ideal Workweek, According to Science

Many of history's greatest minds worked less than four hours per day–and so should the rest of us.
How We Get To Next
33 sec read

In Praise of SETI@home

The screen saver helped scientists search for extraterrestrial life-and made the early web feel like a more idealistic, collaborative space.
Caroline Crampton
3 min read

The Questionable Compromises of Privately-Owned Cities

The reason a privatized city is so much quicker and easier to build is not down to the inherent superiority of...
Samira Shackle
4 min read

Astrology Doesn’t Have To Be Real To Make You Happy

If advertisements are designed to make us insecure enough to buy fancy sheets and pricey furniture in order to feel as...
Sulagna Misra
5 min read

The Forgotten Woman Who Unlocked the Greenhouse Effect

In 1856, American scientist Eunice Foote detailed the mechanics of what we now call the greenhouse effect. Yet we know very...
Ian Steadman
4 min read

Zero Waste Shouldn’t Be A Privilege

If you needed a reminder of just how enmeshed late-stage capitalism is with these kinds of concerns, it's this: we are...
Caroline Crampton
3 min read

Playing Games with Life

Games, as a medium, are somewhat unique in that playing them can also simultaneously be an invitation to experience a simulation...
Ian Steadman
5 min read

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...
Hannah Harris Green
4 min read

NASA Turns to Games For A New Generation of Space Art

NASA spent the 20th century asking illustrators to imagine the future of space exploration. To inspire a new generation of engineers,...
Paul Dean
3 min read