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Is Your Fertility Data For Sale?

Could the sexual history information collected by period trackers be used by governments, corporations, or legal professionals to control or persecute...

Sian Williams Page
Aug 2, 2018 4 min read

WhatsApp Wants You To Stop Sharing Fake Stories

WhatsApp has key differences with platforms like Facebook and Twitter: it is private social media, which makes it harder to study...

Samira Shackle
Jul 27, 2018 3 min read

Architects of the Future

While some ideas toyed with the building blocks, others reflected a desire to fundamentally reshape urban life–and to solve some of...

Darren Garrett
Jul 25, 2018 9 min read

Ringtones and Playstations: The Tools of Grime’s Low-Fidelity All-Stars

How 21st-century London's homegrown music genre was shaped by the technology used to compose it.

Dan Hancox
Jul 20, 2018 4 min read

Guano, Guano, Gone

The story of guano is a story about what humans will do in the pursuit of keeping things just the way...

Ian Steadman
Jul 13, 2018 4 min read

Animating the Future

Walt Disney was a pioneer, looking to the future in animation, film and TV–popular entertainment working to sell Disney's vision of...

Darren Garrett
Jul 11, 2018 8 min read

Stargazing With Whale Sharks

I'm not a marine biologist, but I've been able to take part in conservation projects as a citizen scientist. And so...

Melissa Hobson
Jul 6, 2018 4 min read

Quality Over Quantity: Bioethics at the Vatican

Several hundred scientists, physicians, and policymakers gathered in Rome in April 2018 for the International Vatican Conference, to discuss ethics in...

Joanne Lee
Jun 28, 2018 3 min read

Fact, Fiction, and the Future

These publications were meant to educate–but also to entertain. Their illustrations were drawn by artists who were also some of the...

Darren Garrett
Jun 27, 2018 9 min read

Action Replays For Human Rights Violations

What would hyperreal sports broadcasting look like, if it acknowledged the political context of these events?

Ian Steadman
Jun 21, 2018 4 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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