The Human Machine
A series about the increasingly blurred lines between us and our machines.
The ID Question
Who decides who you are? You, or the world around you?
Postcards From a Supply Chain
A series that traces consumer goods back through the global shipping system to their source.
Beats: Disability
“Disable” is an active verb, and disability describes the social and environmental barriers that prevent access just as much as an individual body’s physical reality.
Beats: Health
Access to health care is as much a matter of public policy as it is the size of a person’s pocketbook; within a doctor’s office, many factors affect the quality of treatment.
Measuring Global Health with the DALY
A better statistic would balance both death and disability, weighting factors like duration of illness, severity of disability, distribution across a population and impact on normal life. The result was the beautiful, elegant DALY.
Was Gamification a Terrible Lie?
Turning work into play was sold as a miracle for increasing productivity–but was that ever really plausible?