Science & Technology

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

The Slide Rule and the Crowbar: Henry David Thoreau in the Anthropocene
Daegan Miller reviews Robert M. Thorson’s “The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years.”
Daegan MillerApr 23, 2017
Big Oil’s High-Risk Love Affair with Film
Big oil and Hollywood came of age together.
Brian R. JacobsonApr 7, 2017
- Film
- Science & Technology
Forging Nature: On “The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium”
Colin Dickey reviews Juan Pimentel’s “The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History.”
Colin DickeyApr 2, 2017
- History
- Science & Technology
Can the Great Lakes Be Saved?
Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson review Dan Egan’s “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes.”
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Vicky AlbrittonMar 26, 2017
- Politics
- Science & Technology
Beyond Designer Babies: Epigenetic Modification May Be the Next Game-Changer
Should we have trepidations about epigenetic modifications? Professor Michael Bess on the potentially destabilizing effect of bioenhancement.
Michael BessMar 24, 2017
- Science & Technology
“Nature is a Bitch”: An Environmentalist’s Scorn for Tree Huggers
Louise Fabiani reviews Benjamin Hale's "The Wild and the Wicked."
Louise FabianiMar 21, 2017
- Science & Technology
The Astounding Achievement, Maybe, of the Man Who Definitely Wasn’t Fibonacci
Dan Friedman reckons with “Finding Fibonacci” by Keith Devlin.
Dan FriedmanMar 21, 2017
Paul Scheerbart and the Art of Science
Visionary SF writer Paul Scheerbart was obsessed by the role creativity plays in scientific discovery, as well as creative applications of scientific ideas.
Amanda DeMarco, Daniel LiuMar 18, 2017
- SF
- Science & Technology
The Modest Problem of Death: On Mark O’Connell’s “To Be a Machine”
Nicole Clark on transhumanism and Mark O'Connell's "To Be a Machine."
Nicole ClarkMar 4, 2017
- Science & Technology
The Thousand Eyes of “Watch Dogs 2”
Who watches "Watch Dogs 2"? Will Partin on the price we pay for normalizing video games as instruments of surveillance.
Will PartinFeb 19, 2017
- SF
- Science & Technology
Darwin Americanus
Kenyon Gradert on Randall Fuller's "The Book That Changed America."
Kenyon GradertFeb 5, 2017
- History
- Science & Technology
Illuminating Love: On Carrie Jenkins’s “What Love Is”
Skye C. Cleary gets to the bottom of "What Love Is."
Skye C. ClearyJan 28, 2017
- Nonfiction
- Science & Technology