It’s Time For a New Kind of Power Fantasy Games can–and must–offer different definitions of fantasy, including fantasies of safety and peace.

    Your Classroom Is Making You Fail Almost everyt traditional classroom design makes it harder to learn–yet the fixes are often simple.

    How We Got To: The Smart Fridge From Francis Bacon to the Large Hadron Collider.

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    Beats: Space Space is where we project our dreams–and our nightmares–of the future.

    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 to skin oil and bra lines and the effect that gravity can have on our hair.

    The Human Machine

    A series about the increasingly blurred lines between us and our machines.
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    Fowl Plague

    Pandemics have threatened humanity in the past–and avian influenza may well be the next one due.
    Duncan Geere
    Aug 4, 2017

    The ID Question

    Who decides who you are? You, or the world around you?
    Anjali Ramachandran
    Nov 22, 2017

    Beats: Space

    Space is where we project our dreams–and our nightmares–of the future.

    Beats: Food

    Food structures our day, and food systems shape our world

    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.

    There Are Black People in the Future

    If we don’t write ourselves into the future, we get written out of tomorrow as well.
    Florence Okoye
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    The Questionable Compromises of Privately-Owned Cities

    The reason a privatized city is so much quicker and easier to build is not down to the inherent superiority of the free market, but because it removes power from people and communities and centralizes it into the hands of one person or corporation.
    Samira Shackle
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    A child holds a tablet computer in a classroom.

    Building the Libraries of Tomorrow

    With people increasingly reading on ever-more-mobile devices, libraries need a reboot to stay relevant.
    Mark Harris
    Nov 13, 2014 2 min read