To Board a Cruise Ship–and Never Get Off Meet the retirees who never stop moving.

    Let Robots Handle Your Emotional Burnout at Work But as robotics and computing evolve, some researchers foresee a future where technology can relieve the long-held emotional burden of some of these professions. They think we owe it to the service workforce to offer a new frontline of robotic protection. In fact, they think it’s far overdue–but does that actually mean just automating these jobs away?

    How to Dress for Ultimate Privacy In the age of surveillance, achieving invisibility through fashion isn’t a futuristic idea–it’s already possible.

    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.

    The Future of Money Depends on Busting Fairy Tales About Its Past Want to disrupt finance? Start here.

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    Postcards From a Supply Chain

    A series that traces consumer goods back through the global shipping system to their source.
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    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

    Disability Futures

    We can’t think about the future-of health, of technology, of community-without centering disability; it cuts across every other kind of experience. Disability is central to all of our lives.
    Kenny Fries
    Apr 30, 2019

    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.

    $100 Million Probably Isn’t Enough To Find Aliens, But Here’s Why It’s Still Worth Looking

    Sometimes the most important scientific discoveries aren’t the ones that were intended.
    Duncan Geere
    Jul 22, 2015 2 min read

    YouTube Has Made Asian-Americans Impossible for Hollywood to Ignore

    Asian-American representation has always been an issue–but it’s YouTube that’s finally fueling the momentum now.
    Karen Hao
    Oct 13, 2016 10 min read

    The Big Cooking Geek Trend of 1911: Paper Bags

    One chef’s doomed quest to revolutionize home cooking.
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