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Playing Games with Life

Games, as a medium, are somewhat unique in that playing them can also simultaneously be an invitation to experience a simulation...
Ian Steadman
Feb 22, 2019 5 min read

We Are All Astronauts

In posing Earth as spaceship rather than living matter, Buckminster Fuller misses the spontaneity of dynamism and creation itself. Decay is...
Lou Cornum
Feb 19, 2019 4 min read

The Aesthetics of Feeling Safe

Rape is added to the lengthy list of the things a woman should keep in mind before going out, in addition...
Hannah Harris Green
Feb 15, 2019 4 min read

Medication for Intentional Forgetting

Ethical controversy surrounds therapeutic forgetting. But the very factors that make memory extinction a laboratory possibility create formidable challenges in doing...
Lola Pellegrino
Feb 12, 2019 6 min read

Dismantling the Myths of PMS

New research challenges the extent to which hormones govern perceptions, emotions, and behaviors during the menstrual cycle.
Sian Williams Page
Feb 8, 2019 3 min read

Crossing the Border While Disabled

Many immigration regulations are based on an outdated understanding of disability, which fails to recognize the contribution that people with disabilities...
Kenny Fries
Feb 5, 2019 5 min read

Food Beyond Class

Let's stop looking at what we eat as individual choices, influenced by their popularity or class association, and instead focus on...
Alicia Kennedy
Jan 29, 2019 4 min read

The Far Side of Utopia

Instead of thinking of space exploration as isolated national efforts, we can view the smaller programs of countries like Lebanon and...
Lou Cornum
Jan 22, 2019 4 min read

Our Inkblots, Ourselves

Diagnostic picture-based tests are alluringly disruptive: a low cost tool that requires no imaging equipment or blood work and that offers...
Lola Pellegrino
Jan 15, 2019 4 min read

NASA Turns to Games For A New Generation of Space Art

NASA spent the 20th century asking illustrators to imagine the future of space exploration. To inspire a new generation of engineers,...
Paul Dean
Jan 11, 2019 3 min read
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