Science & Technology

Evolution Between the Sofa Cushions
Life has evolved its way around our pesticides, antibiotics, and chemotherapies....
Jeremy B. YoderOct 15, 2014
- Nonfiction
- Science & Technology
A Labyrinth of Terror Made of Coral and a Fragile Global Wonder
Coal meets coral: what could possibly go wrong?...
David ArmitageOct 10, 2014
- History
- Science & Technology
On Risk and Personal Belief
Fear paralyzes, irrationality kills....
Susan McCallum-SmithSep 29, 2014
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....
Nicholas CarrSep 14, 2014
- Science & Technology
Different Voices
Digital Cosmopolitanism and the Commercial Web...
Guy Patrick CunninghamAug 16, 2014
- Politics and Economics
- Science & Technology
Contemplation vs. Consumption: Making Sense of the Commercial Web
How does the commercial web shape our behavior online?...
Guy Patrick CunninghamJul 31, 2014
- Science & Technology
Fooled by Climate Change
Climate change science vs. climate change debate ...
Raphael CalelJun 28, 2014
- Science & Technology
Faking Galileo
From the LARB Quarterly Journal: Spring 2014....
Massimo MazzottiJun 25, 2014
- Science & Technology
Cluster-struck
CHARLES DARWIN is more usually cited for his scientific discoveries than his moral insights. In the closing pages of his travelogue The Voyage of the Beagle however, he condemns the practice of slavery — which he observed firsthand in the colonized New ...
Jeremy B. YoderJun 23, 2014
- Science & Technology
The Multiverse in a Flat Circle
Now that the science of the “multiverse” is catching up to science fiction, how will theology change?...
Jared KellerMay 8, 2014
- Religion
- Science & Technology
A Spoonful of Soil
No-till farming will create the soil that will save us....
Stephanie BernhardMay 5, 2014
- Science & Technology
Reaching In
Sandra Swinburne reviews Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s essay collection that brims with intimate glimpses....
Sandra SwinburneApr 26, 2014
- Science & Technology
The Age of Melting Glaciers
Joachim Radkau wants us to think of our current historical era as “The Age of Ecology.” Proctor argues “The Age of Melting Glaciers” would be more accurate....
Robert N. ProctorApr 22, 2014
- Science & Technology
Online and Offline in Cuba
This is one of three essays on Emily Parker’s Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground....
Anita Casavantes BradfordApr 18, 2014
- Science & Technology
Three Reviews: Emily Parker's "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground"
IN A NEW experiment in comparative reviewing, editors Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Megan Shank arranged for three reviews of Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground by Emily Parker. Parker is a digital diplomacy advisor and senior ...
Jason Q. Ng, Benjamin Nathans, Anita Casavantes BradfordApr 18, 2014
- Science & Technology
Oh What Voices
This is one of three essays on Emily Parker’s Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground....
Jason Q. NgApr 18, 2014
- Science & Technology
Like It or Not, They Too Are Fellow Netizens
This is one of three essays on Emily Parker’s Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground....
Benjamin NathansApr 18, 2014
- Science & Technology
Courting Vectoralists: An Interview with McKenzie Wark on the 10 Year Anniversary of "A Hacker Manifesto"
McKenzie Wark speaks 10 years after the publication of The Hacker Manifesto....
Melissa GreggDec 17, 2013
Another Green World: Two Plant Biographies
Triptych image: Catasetum Saccatum, "Botanical Drawing"   GROWING UP in the San Fernando Valley, we had a jungle of morning glory in our backyard. It consumed a once-grassy patch the size of a half-court. Previous tenants of our house had capitalized ...
Laura BlissJul 21, 2013
- Science & Technology
Welcome to the Anthropocene
A new literature for a new age, the 'Age of Man'...
David BielloJun 20, 2012
- Science & Technology
Oppositional Thinking
the idea that the brain's hemispheres, though linked, worked independently has a long history....
Gary LachmanFeb 9, 2012
- Nonfiction
- Science & Technology
The Symphony of Self
Some will be uncomfortable with Damasio’s physical-monist peeking-under-the-hood of our most private inner workings ......
Aaron P. BlaisdellFeb 7, 2012
- Nonfiction
- Science & Technology
An Invitation to Forgetting
The specter of forgetting has haunted every advance we have made in externalizing our memories....
Casey WalkerAug 10, 2011
- Science & Technology
Practicing on Patients
But objectivity may be as elusive as cancer's cure....
Roxana BadinJul 8, 2011
- Science & Technology