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No More Week of Shame

We're talking about menstruation and we're doing it loudly.

Abigail Hartstone
Sep 29, 2015 5 min read

Refugee Innovation

Technology that's changing the lives of people fleeing persecution.

Duncan Geere
Sep 25, 2015 1 min read

The History and Legacy of the Quest to Find the Aether

Nineteenth-century scientists faced a conundrum: How does light work? While they understood that light was a wave–Newton and others had proved...

Richard Baguley
Sep 22, 2015 6 min read

How To: Learn A New Skill Fast

Talents you can master in just an hour.

Duncan Geere
Sep 18, 2015 1 min read

3D Printing a Mini Vertical Farm in Kenya’s Nandi Hills

Turning drainpipes into agriculture.

Alice Bell
Sep 17, 2015 1 min read

Rocket Mail

How missiles almost revolutionized the world's postal services.

Duncan Geere
Sep 16, 2015 10 min read

These Indonesian Women Are Part of the Design Team for Their Own Development Tech

Rather than pushing ideas that look good to Western outsiders, this NGO encourages grassroots innovation.

Lindsey Kennedy
Sep 9, 2015 2 min read

The Stove That Could Turn Rwanda Carbon Negative

Millions of people die every year, killed by their stoves–but that could be about to change.

Katherine Sullivan
Sep 9, 2015 2 min read

A Short History of Drones

The tactician Sun Tzu didn’t have drones when he wrote The Art of War more than 2,000 years ago, but his...

Richard Baguley
Sep 3, 2015 6 min read

Meet OBO, the Robot Taking the Theater World by Storm

Built from shelving, skateboard wheels, and 3D-printed components, it stars in a play about humans interacting with AI.

Duncan Geere
Sep 2, 2015 2 min read

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Choreographing the Physicality of My Bodies When disabled people dance, our use of technology and of the body changes what nondisabled people know. This new information is critical for all of us to understand how beauty, politics, culture, and technology... Read More

It’s Time to End Germany’s Culture of Benevolent Exclusion Imagine a society that doesn't need a fixed construction of "who is disabled" and "who is able," but one that looks at individual needs, regardless of diagnoses. There should be assistance and support for... Read More

Creating Shared Spaces With Every Form of Language The ABC sitcom Speechless serves as an important reminder of the vital ways in which disability invites us to reconsider how we relate to and with other people. Read More

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. Read More

Remaking the Ideal Teacher If I fight for inclusion and equal access for my disabled students, I must extend these rights to myself. I must accept that I perform in nonstandard ways. I must be ready to talk... Read More

How We Think About the Future of Disability We ignore disabled writers at our peril. Disability is–physically, emotionally, and technologically–in the process of redefining our lives. Read More

Online Shopping For More Than Just Good Value Just as none of us has exactly the same combination of shopping habits and values, what we've lost as shopping becomes more and more a digital act is also more personal and specific–I only... Read More

Photo Essay: Scenes From Puerto Rico’s Foodways Puerto Rico has to be seen to be believed–and, to some extent, to be truly understood. Photographer MariÃ¡ngel Catalina Gonzales has the perfect eye for her home: a way of capturing both its truth... Read More

El Futuro de la Comida desde una Perspectiva Puertorriqueña Desde setas hasta pan y ron, los puertorriqueños estÃ¡n explorando nuevos caminos hacia la soberanÃa alimentaria. Read More

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