Sketches of bravery, determination, and inventiveness.
Portia James | Sep 23, 2021
Lem's 1964 story, published in English for the first time, tells the tale of a scientist in an insane asylum theorizing that the sun is alive.
Stanisław Lem, Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones | Sep 20, 2021
A series of botanical encounters in the rainforest, excerpted from Francis Hallé’s book “Atlas of Poetic Botany.”
Francis Hallé | Sep 15, 2021
Global events such as pandemics can momentarily focus attention on a fundamentally overlooked pre-existing human condition: the sheer inequality of how individuals in power decide who lives and who dies.
John Troyer | Sep 13, 2021
What can we learn from the stand-ins helping to shape real life?
Dylan Mulvin | Sep 9, 2021
How visual culture can be mobilized to address the most altering event in the story of humanity.
Alexis L. Boylan | Sep 8, 2021
The story of teaching machines is deeply intertwined with Skinner’s psycho-technologies, which laid a foundation from which education technology has never entirely broken.
Audrey Watters | Sep 3, 2021
Traditional environmentalism has lacked a meaningful, practical democratic vision, rendering it largely marginal to the day-to-day lives of most Americans.
William Shutkin | Aug 31, 2021
Modern authoritarian regimes don’t attempt total, absolute control. Their censorship is more selective and calibrated — and thus more resilient.
Cherian George and Sonny Liew | Aug 26, 2021
An interview with one of the most creative guitarists of our time, excerpted from Joel Harrison's book 'Guitar Talk: Conversations with Visionary Players.'
Joel Harrison | Aug 24, 2021
The Afrofuturism movement within sci-fi may be equal to this moment, in part because it grows out of a history of displacement, atrocity, and instability.
Wade Roush | Aug 19, 2021
Easy and effective, copying is how we cope with unpredictability.
Alex Bentley, Mark Earls, and Michael J. O'Brien | Aug 17, 2021
