The Case Against Cats
Are you a cat person or a bird person? Colin Dickey reviews Peter P. Marra and Chris Santella’s “Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Deadly Killer.”
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein
Cloudy With a Chance of Dystopia: Tung-Hui Hu’s “A Prehistory of the Cloud”
Kevin Driscoll on Tung-Hui Hu's "A Prehistory of the Cloud".
This New Era
Jessica Gross on Virginia Heffernan's "Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art".
A Lab of Her Own
Hope Jahren’s "Lab Girl" offers a clear-eyed look back on a modern scientific career, finding both joy and pain.
Genome Tea Leaves
Sheldon Krimsky on "The Gene: An Intimate History" and "The Age of Genomes: Tales from the Front Lines of Genetic Medicine".
Say Something: Chomsky on Language
A review of a collection of Noam Chomsky’s lectures on language.
Life as a Verb: Applying Buckminster Fuller to the 21st Century
Jonathon Keats’s new book “You Belong to the Universe” is rooted in two orthogonal pictures of Buckminster Fuller.
Algorithms: The Future That Already Happened
In “The Master Algorithm”, Domingos envisions an individually optimized future in which our digital better halves learn everything about us.
Shaping the Future of War: The Important Questions
A look at two books, Christopher Coker's "Future War" and August Cole and P. W. Singer's "Ghost Fleet."
Why Are We So Eager to Hear “Placebo” Speak?
How important are placebo effects?
Information Emerges Naturally
Information successfully counters, if only for a few moments, the disordering entropy of the universe.
Rethinking Knowledge in the Internet Age
With the internet at our fingertips, this is the greatest time to be a curious person wanting to learn, and it is the greatest time to be a complete idiot.
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