The port city lives as both place and projection, a landscape forever rewriting itself.
William Firebrace | Oct 16
We have come a long way, but we have much more work to do.
Alison Rand | Oct 13
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
Blaise Agüera y Arcas | Sep 22
What frogs teach us about sex, science, and why biology is messier than we think.
Ambika Kamath & Melina Packer | Sep 11
An aging Earth, like an aging body, is increasingly vulnerable to heat’s fatal accidents.
James Lovelock | Sep 8
A classic critique shows how creationists’ calls for “equal time” in classrooms blurred the line between legitimate scientific debate and intellectual imposture.
Philip Kitcher | Sep 2
Once America’s great hope, innovation culture eventually met its fiercest critics.
Matthew Wisnioski | Aug 22
The interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums.
Samuel Jay Keyser | Aug 19
How evolution wired us to act against our own best interests.
Telmo Pievani | Aug 12
Eye makers for millennia have been trying to re-create the expressionist power of the human body’s most complex and emotionally meaningful visible organ.
Dan Roche | Aug 5