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Eugenics
How the history of eugenics informs "Dune."
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein
Prophecy
The power of Dune, of its Fremen, is rooted in the prophecy.
Ethnography
"Dune" itself is a work of ethnography — a gateway into a new world.
Computers
In the "Dune" universe, despite their ostensible absence, the computers and artificial intelligences of Herbert’s time are palpably present.
Pharmacology
"Dune" marked a moment when this approach to experimental drugs entered pop culture.
Medicine
What to make of Dr. Wellington Yueh?
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning
Julien Crockett talks with Justin E. H. Smith about his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is.”
On Floating Upstream
In a review of Markoff’s biography of Stewart Brand, W. Patrick McCray notes that Brand’s ability to recognize and cleave to power explains a great deal of his career.
Dark Transparency: Hyper-Ethics at Trump’s EPA
Mario Biagioli and Alain Pottage get to the bottom of how scientific norms were radicalized by Trump’s EPA to turn against themselves.
Weird Science
From anti-vaxxers to Flat Earthers, the public’s (and scholars’) perception of science shifted sometime between 1990-2010, writes Michael Gordin.
Putting California Buddhism to Work in Silicon Valley
Fred Turner describes “Work Pray Code” as a fine-grained map of the traffic between religion and profit-seeking in Silicon Valley.
Take Nobody’s Word for It: A Conversation with Wes Jackson
Wes Jackson, who won a MacArthur for the idea of perennial grains grown in mixtures, is quite sure we are getting less intelligent.
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