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Clever Like a Fox

A look into how games and childhood play encourage the kind of adaptive, flexible thinking we need to navigate a complex...
Steven Johnson
Nov 2, 2016 11 min read

Losing the Lifeline Between Scent and Memory

Does losing your sense of smell mean losing a part of your identity?
Amelia Quint
Oct 28, 2016 4 min read

Why We Shouldn’t Teach Girls to Code

Women shouldn't be fighting for existing work–they should be inventing, designing, prototyping, and coding a new ideal of what work can...
Susan Cox-Smith
Oct 27, 2016 10 min read

Translating Identity Across the Language Barrier

Genderqueer vocabulary in English can be tricky enough–but talking across languages brings both freedoms and restrictions.
Hannah Harris Green
Oct 26, 2016 10 min read

Would You Like to Be Uploaded to a Computer When You Die?

Rattling around inside a hard drive doesn't sound like an awful lot of fun–but then, neither does death.
Dan Sung
Oct 25, 2016 10 min read

Are You Being Misled by Your Quantified Self?

Are we letting the technology that records our lives shape what we see as important about them?
Jessica Harneyford
Oct 21, 2016 7 min read

Greater Than Zero

An investigation into the surprising history of games designed to change our political values.
Steven Johnson
Oct 19, 2016 12 min read

When Does an Artificial Intelligence Become a Person?

On artificial intelligence, animal rights, and the frontiers of legal personhood.
Corin Faife
Oct 18, 2016 9 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 Face That Looks Back

On transplants, disfigurements, and identity.
Rich McEachran
Oct 7, 2016 8 min read
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