Society

“A relationship is a physiologic process, as real and as potent as any pill or surgical procedure.”

What is capitalism? What is a corporation? What is the relationship between one’s desires for consumption, capitalist notions of the individual self, and the power of corporations? The following do…

Harry Stevens, for The Washington Post, how simulations can be used to detect severely gerrymandered congressional districts. In the interactive, you play the role of concerned citizen with the tas…

This seems to be cultural, not based on income, caste, race or genetics. Some professions and communities give a greater percentage of their income to charity than others. Some towns have no-kill d…

People don’t talk about end-of-life suffering or the cost of healthcare in the last year of life, so it never gets better. Instead, we pretend it isn’t an issue and the problem persists…

Of course, we’ve always had snake oil salesmen. We’ve always had patent medicines, odd electric probes and copper bracelets. That’s partly because placebos work, and partly becaus…

A much-heralded land art megasculpture, 50 years in the making, was built on stolen Indigenous land in Nevada.

Former President Obama is jumping back into politics to try to help his party in the midterms

In downtown Windhoek, Namibia — at the intersection of Fidel Castro Street and Robert Mugabe Avenue — there’s an imposing gold building with an affectionate nickname: the Coffee Maker. This notable structure was built to commemorate Namibia’s fight for independence from apartheid South Africa, which it achieved in 1990. And for many of the visitors,

Why would Trump risk prosecution rather than just giving back the docs?

TexasSignal: Rep. Lance Gooden, a Republican who represents Texas’ 5th District, has introduced legislation that would allow U.S. citizens to seize the yachts, jets, and other property belonging to Russian oligarchs who have been sanctioned in response to the invasion of Ukraine. In other words, privateering. …In the age of sail, it was common for […]

Emergent issues at the intersection of labor, technology, and worker rights

The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.

Moore’s law talks about the fact that computer chips get faster and cheaper over time. It turns out that the biggest shift to our culture isn’t the changing speed of a computer chip, it…

As you’ve probably heard, Amazon has a new series set in Middle-earth, the world created by J.R.R. Tolkien in his landmark novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. With The Rings of Power premi…

A 21-year-old New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with stalking in connection with a federal investigation into groups of cybercriminals who are settling scores by hiring people to carry out physical attacks on their rivals. Prosecutors say the…

What was sex like for those living in Europe during the Middle Ages? In this History Hit video, Dr Eleanor Janega and Dr Kate Lister (from @whoresofyore) look at sex practices 500-800 years ago, fr…

Over the past several years, disinformation, or the intentional deployment of false information for malicious ends, has emerged as a critical threat.

A deep-fake video will make an appearance on NBC's "America's Got Talent" tonight in what its creators hope, and detractors fear, will mark a new acceptance of the technology.

For decades, marketers (and politicians) have been working to amplify cultural distress, a hack on our emotions. Not the tragic emotional distress of being unable to care for your kids, find a plac…

If a decentralized blockchain protocol is worried about being shut down by the authorities, how can it defend itself? A recent discussion s...

China is the world’s second largest economy, it has the world’s largest population, and it is only a matter of time before has a world-class technology