Before Climate Change, a Dynamic Arctic
A dazzling new history of the Arctic region between the United States and Russia is leavened with sharp prose and well-informed insights....
Everybody Hurts
Travis Rieder’s “In Pain” provides us with a bioethics that is not passively analytical, but peacefully agitative....
Like a Dog
In his review of two recent books, Cass R. Sunstein considers what it means to be “like a dog.”...
Circuit: Queer Pleasure as Queer Memory
Joe Osmundson lyrically deploys circuit metaphors to describe how new anti-virals are re-wiring the gay dance circuit in post-AIDS New York....
I, Language Robot
Hired to write stories alongside an AI writing bot, neuroscientist Patrick House reflects on how the bot can — and can’t — write the same story that he can....
The Smartest People in the Room? What Silicon Valley’s Supposed Obsession with Tech-Free Private Schools Really Tells Us
Morgan G. Ames on the problem of letting Silicon Valley tech elites guide conversations on child development and schooling....
Why Technologists Fail to Think of Moderation as a Virtue and Other Stories About AI
Evan Selinger argues that Ted Chiang’s fiction is more useful for understanding the dangers of AI than “Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI.”...
Ghost Hands, Player Pianos, and the Hidden History of AI
Vanessa Chang considers Obvious's "Portrait of Edmond de Belamy" and the history of AI artistry....
Demythologizing Testosterone
A new book tackles cultural stereotypes about masculinity and aggression....
Silicon Valley: A Region High on Historical Amnesia
In his review of O’Mara’s “The Code,” Patrick McCray describes how the federal government provided the tailwind that pushed Silicon Valley to stardom....
The Time Has Come to Talk About Oysters
Louise L. Schiavone reports on the decimation of tens of thousands of years’ worth of oyster reefs....
Why Are Women So Mean to Infertile Women?
Amy Klein reviews Alexandra Kimball's "The Seed: Infertility Is a Feminist Issue."...
