Isaac Asimov’s “Handbook of Robotics” imagined simple rules for machine morality. But reality is a maze of contradictions, biases, and blind spots.
De Kai | Dec 15
The soda giant astroturfed a campaign meant to shift blame from sugar to sedentary lifestyles. Instead, it sparked a PR nightmare.
Murray Carpenter | Dec 11
Turning picture and prose into a poignant meditation on nature’s impermanence.
Miya Ando | Dec 8
Frank Gehry’s sketches stand in a long artistic lineage, reminding us that architecture often begins where drawing outruns every other tool.
Horst Bredekamp | Dec 6
Once icons of corporate uniformity, abandoned Wal-Marts in Kentucky now host thriving community flea markets.
Julia Christensen | Dec 5
How fungus and Freud converge to illuminate a deep ecology of mind, nature, and human ancestry.
Sharon Sliwinski | Nov 24
After a mind-bending trip at nineteen, McKenna spent his adult life transforming a molecule into a cultural sacrament.
Graham St John | Nov 20
On the evolution of conifers from prehistoric landscapes to the forests of the modern world.
Joanne Anton | Nov 13
From storms to oil booms, the region’s past is marked by extraction, upheaval, and the migrations they set in motion.
Thomas Princen | Nov 7
Writing "The Red Riviera" taught me that even flawed socialist systems offered insights into equality, solidarity, and the dignity of everyday life.
Kristen Ghodsee, Duke University Press | Nov 6
