Soviet Pseudoscience: The History of Mind Control
The long, strange history of Soviet mind control experiments....
Squishy Sentience
Marlene Zuk reads Peter Godfrey-Smith's "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness."...
Pointing at the Wrong Villain: Cass Sunstein and Echo Chambers
David Weinberger on the problems of Cass R. Sunstein's "#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media."...
A Piece of the Action: Recent Books on the Digital Economy
Ron Hogan reviews three new books on the digital plutocracy....
Will You Be as Gods?
Jordan Brower on how HBO's "Silicon Valley" approaches the myth of the individual genius....
Silicon Valley’s Bonfire of the Vainglorious
W. Patrick McCray looks at two new books about Silicon Valley, Mark O'Connell's "To Be a Machine" and Alexandra Wolfe's "Valley of the Gods."...
Can a Machine be Alive?
Julien Crockett reviews Jessica Riskin's "The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick."...
Born Into That Excitement: A Conversation with Anna Leahy and Douglas R. Dechow About “Generation Space: A Love Story”
M. G. Lord speaks with Anna Leahy and Douglas R. Dechow about “Generation Space: A Love Story.”...
A Brutal Intelligence: AI, Chess, and the Human Mind
Nicholas Carr contemplates AI and “Deep Thinking,” a memoir by chess master Garry Kasparov....
Making New Friends: The Genetics of Animal Domestication
The story of the Russian geneticists who domesticated the silver fox....
How to Travel in Time
Is the age of time travel already over, and when did it begin?...
Our Deplorable Selves: Alan Alda’s Improv Antidote
K. C. Cole looks at Alan Alda's "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?"...
