Beats: Food Food structures our day, and food systems shape our world

    Red Planet: How We’ll Govern Mars Technical and engineering obstacles are solvable when it comes to interplanetary colonization–the real challenge is governance.

    How We Got To: The Smart Fridge From Francis Bacon to the Large Hadron Collider.

    Batteries Not Excluded The supercomputer in your pocket and your next car rely on them–so what will we do if we run out of lithium?

    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.

    Fowl Plague

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

    Isla del Encanto

    Puerto Ricans have always found opportunity in the limits placed upon them. Exploring the island’s agricultural future–from community gardens to research hubs, bakers to growers to distillers.
    Alicia Kennedy
    Apr 16, 2019

    The ID Question

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

    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 the Salt Flats of Western Utah Could Bring Windpower to LA

    Each turbine in the farm will be bigger than the Empire State Building.
    Duncan Geere
    Oct 15, 2014 3 min read

    This Knowledge From 40,000 Years Ago Is Saving River Systems

    Scientists are working with indigenous communities for better water management.
    Robyn Hopcroft
    Feb 10, 2015 2 min read

    When Indigenous Fashion Hits the Runway, Details Matter

    The traditional dress of Bolivia’s indigenous Aymara has gone from an object of scorn and stigma, to one of fashion phenomenon.
    Jean Friedman-Rudovsky
    Sep 27, 2016 9 min read