Muttnik: Canine Rocketeers in the USSR
Rigged with a faulty cooling system, Sputnik 2 was a lemon and killed Laika in three hours, frying her like Icarus.
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein
Evolution Between the Sofa Cushions
Life has evolved its way around our pesticides, antibiotics, and chemotherapies.
A Labyrinth of Terror Made of Coral and a Fragile Global Wonder
Coal meets coral: what could possibly go wrong?
On Risk and Personal Belief
Fear paralyzes, irrationality kills.
The Manipulators: Facebook’s Social Engineering Project
The revelation that Facebook manipulates user experience to study human behavior heralds a new stage in the history of the Internet.
Different Voices
Digital Cosmopolitanism and the Commercial Web
Contemplation vs. Consumption: Making Sense of the Commercial Web
How does the commercial web shape our behavior online?
Fooled by Climate Change
Climate change science vs. climate change debate
Faking Galileo
From the LARB Quarterly Journal: Spring 2014.
Cluster-struck
The Multiverse in a Flat Circle
Now that the science of the “multiverse” is catching up to science fiction, how will theology change?
A Spoonful of Soil
No-till farming will create the soil that will save us.
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