Notes on “Note-by-Note”: A New Molecular Cuisine?
You are what you think you are eating.
You are what you think you are eating.
Benjamin Aldes WurgaftMar 5, 2015
A lucky, damaged man lost in a world of magical thinking.
Andrew ScullFeb 26, 2015
What happens when “life as we know it” becomes a series of occasions to collect, analyze, and use data to determine what’s true, opportune, or even...
Evan SelingerFeb 17, 2015
It’s clear that our media today capture and contain authorial presence with unprecedented levels of abundance. But the total recall and total...
Matthew KirschenbaumFeb 6, 2015
"This is not like any other place."
John ZadaJan 30, 2015
Of course, one need only visit the latest round of Facebook infographics to know that statisticulation is a robust art.
David KordahlJan 29, 2015
In story after story, technology stands in as a focus for our fears for our daughters (as well as our desire to control them).
Elizabeth YaleJan 27, 2015
The quantum mechanics of family life
Max RossJan 26, 2015
Is technology quietly deskilling, and dehumanizing, us?
Clive ThompsonJan 23, 2015
Stephen Hawking teaches us how human beings make science together.
Ken AlderJan 10, 2015
Magic’s unintended consequences.
Evan SelingerJan 8, 2015
Jhave on "Pry," an interactive multimedia fiction — an iOS app by Tender Claws, the duo Danny Cannizzaro and Samantha Gorman.
JhaveDec 29, 2014
Temma Ehrenfeld on Joshua Wolf Shenk's "Powers of Two": Creative work is in any case rough, and two are better than one.
Temma EhrenfeldDec 22, 2014
"Like a real marshmallow, like any of the temptations offered children in his now-famous experiment, Mischel’s new book — The Marshmallow Test...
Helen Betya RubinsteinDec 18, 2014
Tyler Cowen’s "Average Is Over"
Guy Patrick CunninghamNov 24, 2014
Steve Jones's "The Serpent's Promise" is not just a “retelling” of the Bible, but a critique of religion and a clarion call for science to replace it...
Alistair WelchmanNov 19, 2014
Love in the time of lab rats.
Evan SelingerOct 20, 2014
Rigged with a faulty cooling system, Sputnik 2 was a lemon and killed Laika in three hours, frying her like Icarus.
Rory TolanOct 17, 2014
Life has evolved its way around our pesticides, antibiotics, and chemotherapies.
Jeremy B. YoderOct 15, 2014
Coal meets coral: what could possibly go wrong?
David ArmitageOct 10, 2014
Fear paralyzes, irrationality kills.
Susan McCallum-SmithSep 29, 2014
The revelation that Facebook manipulates user experience to study human behavior heralds a new stage in the history of the Internet.
Nicholas CarrSep 14, 2014
Digital Cosmopolitanism and the Commercial Web
Guy Patrick CunninghamAug 16, 2014
How does the commercial web shape our behavior online?
Guy Patrick CunninghamJul 31, 2014