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

    Scientists Like Me Are Studying Your Tweets–Are You OK With That? As researchers, we have a responsibility to acknowledge that factors like the type of data, the creator of that data, and our intended use for the data are important when it comes to using public information.

    Your Classroom Is Making You Fail Almost everyt traditional classroom design makes it harder to learn–yet the fixes are often simple.

    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?

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

    Where We Live and How We Die What a year of death looks like around the world.

    The Human Machine

    A series about the increasingly blurred lines between us and our machines.
    Ian Steadman
    Aug 23, 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

    Breaking the Cycle

    The future of reproductive health in India, from early ideas about population control to on-the-ground interventions happening now, to a world where men and women share contraceptive responsibility.
    Hannah Harris Green
    Sep 26, 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.

    Celebrating 25 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope

    Happy birthday to an astronomical wonder.
    Duncan Geere
    Apr 22, 2015 6 min read

    What Happens When There’s Only 88 Psychiatrists in an Entire Country?

    In developing nations like Kenya, where mental health care is practically nonexistent, internet-based organizations save lives.
    Greg Noone
    Jun 15, 2016 6 min read

    TV Shows Could Power the Internet of Things

    Energy efficient chips can communicate with each other, powered only by ambient communication waves.
    Mark Harris
    Oct 30, 2014 2 min read