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How Does Queerness Fit Into the US Census?
How does a data set like the US census deal with people who defy its expectations? How can a data set encompass those its designers never imagined? These...
If Humans Went Extinct, Would a Similar Species Evolve?
The rise of powerful new technology means that humanity must confront the risk of its own demise. The invention of nuclear weaponry, for example, has already shown just...
What Adults Don’t Get About Teens and Digital Life
On a snowy winter day, we were in the library of a charter middle school in Portland, Maine. It was the first of many school visits where we...
How China Threatens to Splinter the Metaverse
When Mark Zuckerberg announced in October 2021 that Facebook was changing its name to Meta Platforms Inc., it made waves well beyond Silicon Valley. Overnight, it became the talk...
Transport Apps Promised to Eliminate Friction. But at What Cost?
In the vision of the “frictionless” city that is held by many in tech, where virtually every city service, human interaction, and consumer experience is to be mediated...
How ‘The Dress’ Sparked a Neuroscience Breakthrough
Back in 2015, before Brexit, before Trump, before Macedonian internet trolls, before QAnon and Covid conspiracy theories, before fake news and alternative facts, the disagreement over the Dress...
