To Board a Cruise Ship–and Never Get Off Meet the retirees who never stop moving.

    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.

    The Roots of an Epidemic From apartheid labor policies to everyday sexism, socio-political issues influence the spread of TB disease and the effectiveness of health responses. To tackle the epidemic, we need systemic changes.

    The Boundaries of Artificial Emotional Intelligence If our virtual assistants and emotional laborers are all turning out to be soothing, female-voiced AI, will it close certain gaps for human women? Or will it ratify them?

    Does Siri Believe in God? A theological guide to chatbots and the world’s major religions.

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

    Breaking the Cycle

    The future of reproductive health in India, from early ideas about population control to on-the-ground interventions happening now, to a world where men and women share contraceptive responsibility.
    Hannah Harris Green
    Sep 26, 2018

    Fowl Plague

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

    A Noxious Problem

    Smog in cities and smoke in the home cause a huge range of short- and long-term health conditions. Why is the world’s biggest public health crisis only getting worse?
    How We Get To Next
    Oct 24, 2018

    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.

    Science Is a Liar Sometimes

    I’ve been struggling to find an example of a branch of science that hasn’t been used for evil.
    Ian Steadman
    Nov 30, 2018 4 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

    $75 to Walk Again: Tackling Asia’s Prosthetics Crisis

    Instead of getting inappropriate secondhand prosthetics from the West, this charity is making their own bespoke ones in Laos.
    Lindsey Kennedy
    Aug 28, 2015 2 min read