Without different anatomical proportions, a scaled-up body would collapse under its own weight.
Joel David Hamkins | Aug 13
Children once learned by taking things apart. Today’s devices do not provide that rewarding activity — and the cognitive consequences may be considerable.
Frank C. Keil | Aug 6
In “From the Earth to the Moon,” scientific advancement is treated as destiny — but no one quite asks why.
Malka Older | Aug 3
Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.
Joshua M. Greenberg | Jul 30
Computerized rooms, telework stations, and child-soothing technologies sold a seductive illusion that automation could solve the problems of maternal care.
Hannah Zeavin | Jul 24
Fraudsters have long told stories of imprisoned nobles and hidden fortunes, with desperate pleas for help. Email simply gave their messages a perfect medium.
Finn Brunton | Jul 20
Oceanographers have quietly used lost cargo to build the most precise maps of ocean currents ever created.
Alexander Klose | Jul 16
Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind of natural world we want to build.
Taylor Dotson | Jul 6
Surrogacy, embryo disputes, and synthetic gametes raise profound, unanswered questions about liberty and equality.
I. Glenn Cohen | Jun 29
Their lives and symptoms offer a rare window into how the brain binds experience into a single mind.
Christof Koch | Jun 25
