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Let’s Play War

Could war games replace the real thing?

September 21, 2015

What Technology Can’t Change About Happiness

As pills and gadgets proliferate, what matters is still social connection.

September 10, 2015

Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot

We predicted cell phones, but not women in the workplace.

September 8, 2015

What Searchable Speech Will Do To You

Will recording every spoken word help or hurt us?

August 31, 2015

Caitlyn Jenner and Our Cognitive Dissonance

While biology shows us gender can be fluid, our brains struggle to see it that way.

August 31, 2015

Warm Fuzzies

If you could bring a loved one back from the dead, should you?

August 20, 2015

What to Eat in Atlantis

Five menus for five mythical cities.

August 20, 2015

The Reinvention of Black

As the means of creating the color black have changed, so have the subjects it represents.

August 11, 2015