• Technology

    Gig Economy

    The Cult of the Hustle: Why We All Want to Become Our Own Boss

    Benjamin C. Waterhouse on the Economic and Political Factors Behind the Current Gig Economy

     
    By Benjamin C. Waterhouse  January 22, 2024
    Science fiction

    How a 20th-Century Czech Play Influences Our Understanding of Science and Humanity

    By Jitka Čejková  January 16, 2024
    Biggest Literary Stories

    The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

    By Literary Hub  December 23, 2023
    Biggest Literary Stories

    The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 30 to 11

    By Emily Temple  December 19, 2023
    Biggest Literary Stories

    The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2023
    Artificial Intelligence

    Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

    By Debbie Urbanski  December 8, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    On Technology

    Unlocking Digital Doors: On the Hacker Group That Told Congress They Could Take Down the Internet

    By Walter J. Scheirer  December 7, 2023
    Sci-Fi

    Space Pastoral: Finding a New Literary Genre in the Slow Death of the International Space Station

    By Samantha Harvey  December 5, 2023
    Aging

    On Learning to Ride a Motorcycle After Fifty

    By Kim McLarin  November 17, 2023
    Entertainment

    Theater of the Mind: How Radio Brought the World Into American Homes

    Paul J. Nahin on News and Entertainment in the Time Before Television

    By Paul J. Nahin  January 17, 2024
    Shakespeare's First Folio

    In Praise of the Tangible Sacredness of the Printed Word

    By Ed Simon  November 13, 2023
    Space!

    What To Do When Your Period Comes… In Space

    By Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith  November 8, 2023
    Geology

    Magical and Essential: On the Mineral and Metallic Bases of Our World

    By Ed Conway  November 8, 2023
    Photography

    Capturing Process and Industry in America: On the Photography of Christopher Payne

    Kathy Ryan on How "the Manufacturing World is Payne’s Muse"

    By Kathy Ryan  November 3, 2023
    Artificial Intelligence

    “AI, Ain’t I A Woman?” On the Blindness and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence

    By Joy Buolamwini  November 1, 2023
    AI

    Can a Computer Write Like Eudora Welty?

    By Randy Sparkman  October 30, 2023
    The Internet

    You Will Live on the Internet: The Grim Realities of the Metaverse

    By Rachel O'Dwyer  October 16, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    How US Intelligence Agencies Hid Their Most Shameful Experiments

    Matthew Connelly on Human Cost of Secret Science

    By Matthew Connelly  October 2, 2023
    Media

    Recognition Chains: How Digital Platforms Influence What We Consume

    By Michèle Lamont  September 18, 2023
    Artificial Intelligence

    Why Human Writing Is Worth Defending In the Age of ChatGPT

    By Naomi S. Baron  September 12, 2023
    Inventions

    How Complex Math and Human Innovation Created the Calculator

    By Keith Houston  August 31, 2023
    Social Media

    How Big Tech Helps Promote Disinformation—And How It Can Help Stop It

    Lee McIntyre on Media Literacy (Or Lack Thereof) in the Internet Age

    By Lee McIntyre  August 30, 2023
    Keen On

    Matthew Moynihan on the Promises of Fusion

    By Keen On  August 17, 2023
    Keen On

    Ece Temelkuran on Social Media’s Failure to Change the World

    By Keen On  August 15, 2023
    Physics

    Magnets, How Do They Work? On the Magic of Magnetic Force

    By Roma Agrawal  November 16, 2023
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