Nick Hilden
Making AI More Human
An interview with Berkeley researcher and author Nina Begus about her new book and proposal to fuse science and the humanities
Doing Science and Philosophy On Drugs
Justin Smith-Ruiu takes a philosophical and first-person look at psychedelics
Love in the Time of Climate Change
Megha Majumdar’s acclaimed novel A Guardian and a Thief explores a near-future where scarcity forces hard choices
Can Embracing the Unknown Save Us From Dystopia?
An interview with Daniel Wilson, author of shamanic techno-thriller Hole in the Sky
The Philosophy of Tyranny
What a formative period in Plato's life tells us about US politics today
AI Has Already Run Us Over the Cliff
Cognitive neuroscientist Chris Summerfield argues that we don’t understand the technology we’re so eager to deploy
The Importance of Muscle
In his new book, Michael Joseph Gross explores how the notion of strength has changed since Homer
Life in an Atmospheric Zoo
Journalist Carl Zimmer tells the story of the science of aerobiology
Pico Iyer’s Wide-Awake Silence
The author on losing his home to wildfire, finding strength in solitude, and his new book Aflame
Breaking a Cycle of Apocalypse
John Larison’s new novel The Ancients suggests some societies are built for cataclysm
