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Sense Hacking: The Real-Life Cyborgs of the DIY Augmentation Scene

Meet the people determined to shape their experience of the external world in new ways.
Jane C. Hu
Aug 15, 2017 15 min read

Persisting in Dark Times: Lessons From a War Crimes Researcher

These days, though, you don't necessarily have to belong to the media or an intelligence agency to hunt for criminals and...
Muira McCammon
Mar 16, 2017 9 min read

Chasing Virality Brought Us Fake News, Now Everything’s on Fire

By uncritically embedding itself into social networks, did the media actually usher in the era of fake news?
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Feb 1, 2017 9 min read

How the Art of Signaling Is Changing

Who needs eyes when you have an app?
Hannah Harris Green
Jan 26, 2017 9 min read

Activism on the Subway Platform

Activists across the world are leveraging the power of public transit as a place of common reference for the people who...
Steven Higashide
Jan 18, 2017 8 min read

The Web Divided

Will machine translation ever bring us together?
Corin Faife
Jan 13, 2017 10 min read

The Game Worlds We Make

Why designing a simple board game with my son rivals anything he's learning in school.
Steven Johnson
Jan 3, 2017 9 min read

Busting the Neuromyths About How We Learn

This idea of different "learning styles" is widely believed–but there's no evidence that it's true.
Duncan Geere
Dec 20, 2016 7 min read

Party in the Front

An exploration of the cultural shift that began with a leisure space of idle chatter and led to some of our...
Steven Johnson
Dec 15, 2016 11 min read

Brain Hacks for Supersonic Learning

"Neuroscience-based" methods promise to improve our cognitive abilities–but do they actually work?
Duncan Jefferies
Dec 13, 2016 9 min read
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