One Last Thing

Scientists Don’t Have a Monopoly On Objective Thinking

I wish that the STEM fields weren't so cloistered from the rest of the academy, and by extension, I wish STEM...
Elizabeth Minkel
May 24, 2018 1 min read

When Charts Go Weird: The Joy of Xenographics

Xenographics can be fun alternatives to the classic bar, line, and pie chart trio–but they can also be more effective for...
Duncan Geere
May 17, 2018 2 min read

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...
Alok Jha
May 10, 2018 3 min read

Your Great-Grandson’s Genetic Privacy

You might not worry about your genetic information being exposed. But are you willing to make that choice for your descendants?
Elizabeth Minkel
May 3, 2018 2 min read

The Future of International Scientific Collaboration

Countries cooperating to steer the direction of a world-changing technology is important–but they should include those which have not historically had...
Duncan Geere
Apr 26, 2018 2 min read

Archiving the Infinite Stream

There is a sort of negligent impermanence to so much of what we put online. Quick hits, falling off the feed...
Elizabeth Minkel
Apr 19, 2018 2 min read

Disappearing Languages and Tooltips

Obfuscating a feature is obviously not a great solution, and it's arguably a total betrayal of the principles I laid out...
Duncan Geere
Apr 12, 2018 2 min read

Please YouTubers, Don’t Make Us Pay To Interview You

Why should someone whose days are spent talking to a camera for money not talk to a journalist for money as...
Ian Steadman
Apr 5, 2018 2 min read
A scene from the movie "Day After Tomorrow" with people fleeing a tidal wave that has entered Manhattan and is flooding the streets.

The Day After the Day After Tomorrow

Climate change is not a movie villain, and it's not something that's going to show up in a distant, hazy future...
Elizabeth Minkel
Mar 29, 2018 3 min read
A still from a James Bond movie showing the evil villain Blofeld stroking his cat, but the image is edited so that Blofeld is wearing a ring with the Facebook logo.

The Real Villains of the Tech Industry

The "Who, us? We're just a tech company/public square/conduit for your conversations" line of deflection is echoed up and down the...
Elizabeth Minkel
Mar 22, 2018 3 min read
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