The ID Question
Who decides who you are? You, or the world around you?
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?
A Visual History of the Future
Decades ago, artists’ imaginings formed high expectations about the world to come. Were these just fantasies–or was it the work of pioneers whose visions of the future actually helped to shape it?
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.
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 ourselves.
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 we can’t quite see.