Has the U.S. Passed Peak Car?
Ross Andersen is an Atlantic correspondent based in Washington, D.C. He is also the Science Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, and a contributor to The Economist.
Our mourning rituals are being adapted to -- and evolving because of -- our strangely persistent online personas. In this interview, a philosopher tries to make sense of death on the Internet. More »
From drugs to help you avoid eating meat to genetically engineered cat-like eyes to reduce the need for lighting, a wild interview about changes humans could make to themselves to battle climate change. More »
An Oxford philosopher argues that we are not adequately accounting for technology's risks -- but his solution to the problem is not for Luddites. More »
For its birthday, Svalbard will receive seeds from war-torn Syria and celebrate years of success preserving our inheritance from Neolithic times. More »
Andreas Tziolas is drafting a blueprint for a mission to a nearby star. Here, he discusses how we'll get there -- and why we try. More »
For decades, Robert Gray has been trying to duplicate the most surprising and still-unexplained observation in the history of the search for extraterrestrial life. More »
Using technology to enhance our brains sounds terrifying, but trying to better our abilities may be part of our human nature. More »
Hobbyists and tinkerers are testing out the future with a technology that you're probably going to have sooner than you think. More »
On the big questions science cannot (yet?) answer, a new crop of philosophers are trying to provide answers. More »
John Zerzan is defiantly anti-civilization and one of the few people who sees Steve Jobs as a negative force in the world More »
Today there is reason to fear that the project of sending men into space may follow the same trajectory of its first hero More »
