Dreaming Up Inventions for an Afrofuturist World Three magical tools necessary for both liberation and laughter.

    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.

    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.

    The Power of Play: A Reading List A crash course on how fun and leisure can change the world

    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.

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

    The ID Question

    Who decides who you are? You, or the world around you?
    Anjali Ramachandran
    Nov 22, 2017

    Fowl Plague

    Pandemics have threatened humanity in the past–and avian influenza may well be the next one due.
    Duncan Geere
    Aug 4, 2017

    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

    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.

    How to Dress for Ultimate Privacy

    In the age of surveillance, achieving invisibility through fashion isn’t a futuristic idea–it’s already possible.
    Emily Reynolds
    Sep 16, 2016 5 min read

    From the Andes to Outer Space

    How one company saved Argentina’s space program.
    Martin Etchegaray
    Apr 30, 2015 10 min read

    Firefighting Robots and Their Farming Siblings

    Developing countries get a new way to battle wildfires and detect disease in crops.
    Vas Panagiotopoulos
    Nov 20, 2015 3 min read