Death by a Thousand Pumps
Before the first Americans carved out rectangular borders and called it “the Southwest,” before the Diné established their tribal homeland between the four sacred mountains, the area was water and imm...
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Class Action
In 2024, The Boston Globe launched an unprecedented investigation into Massachusetts public schools, uncovering haunting stories of special-needs students’ parents attempting to navigate the education...
Out of Office: The Need for Worker-Centered AI
Tech executives have spent the last two years making sweeping claims about what AI will mean for human labor. In a December 2025 study by the Harvard Business Review, 90 percent of executives surveyed...
License to Learn
Last year, Elon Musk proclaimed that AI was already smarter than the smartest person in the world, and soon will be smarter than all of the smartest people in the world collectively. No matter how one...
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Video[Video] “I Just Wish We Could Tell a Story of What Works”: An Epidemiologist Reviews Outbreak Movies
Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center and Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, reviews depictions of epidemics in Twilight (2008), The Last of Us (2023), Outbreak (1995), and Conta...
From Dubai to Space: The Strategy Behind the UAE’s Tech Modernization Efforts
On July 19, 2020, the United Arab Emirates Space Association (UAESA) launched a rocket named Hope into space in celebration of the country’s 50th anniversary. Hope went into orbit around Mars to trans...
Structured Sea, Muddled Moon: Maritime Models for Lunar Resource Governance
Drawing on the precedent of deep-sea mining governance, a consensus and permit based system for lunar resource extraction would ensure fair and peaceful use of space resources.
Losing Charge
The problems with falling behind China’s electric vehicle surge
Biohacking: Brain or Body?
iohacking” is an evolving trend in which people change their food and lifestyle habits to take advantage of biological mechanisms and to improve wellbeing. Dubbed “do-it-yourself” biology, biohacking...
The Lonely World of Earbuds
cross six time zones, Americans sit in traffic, wait on platforms, and squeeze between strangers. We spend an average of 26.9 minutes each way commuting to work, while 15 million of us take more than...
In the Race to Build 5G Technology, the U.S. is Losing
ithin the next year, major telecom companies plan to roll out technology capable of connecting the world’s billions of devices with speeds 1,000 times faster than LTE. This technology, called 5G, woul...
Preempting the Dangers of Deepfakes
lthough they may seem like novelties at first glance, “deepfakes” threaten to usher in a new era where our eyes and ears can no longer trust online content. These videos take the face of one person an...
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A Corporate Obsession: Why the FCC is Failing to Bridge the Digital Divide
n average, Americans spend ten hours staring at a screen every day. The incorporation of internet use into everyday life has become so ubiquitous that the inability to get online can have massive repe...
The Creation Museum, the Ark Encounter, and America’s Problem of Anti-Science
Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter are two attractions in Kentucky run by the Christian apologetics group Answers in Genesis. The Creation Museum, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2017, te...
Neurolaw: Criminal Justice in a World without Free Will
Scientific advancement has often upended long-cherished human beliefs. In the 17th century, the discovery that the Earth was not in fact at the center of the universe was not just difficult to fathom,...
Man, Machine, and Boundaries between
A humanoid robot named Sophia has become quite the celebrity as of late. A product of Hanson Robotics, Sophia has made appearances on various television shows—flashing an eerie smile while playing roc...
Why Uber Failed in Europe
ber, the San Francisco based transportation network company founded in 2009, has been incredibly successful in the United States, racking up a revenue of almost $20 billion. The well-known startup pro...
