Katie Hafner, Scientific American

Katie Hafner

Scientific American

San Francisco, CA, United States

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Recent:
  • Unknown
Past:
  • Scientific American
  • Undark Magazine
  • WIRED

Past articles by Katie:

The Feminist Test We Keep Failing: Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 3 Bonus Episode

There's a test that we at Lost Women of Science seem to fail again and again: the Finkbeiner Test. → Read More

Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 5: La Jolla

Klára Dán von Neumann encounters a new home, a new husband and a new project → Read More

Love Computers? Love History? Listen to This Podcast

In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it. → Read More

Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 3: The Experimental Rabbit

ENIAC, an early electronic computer, gets a makeover → Read More

Love Computers? Love History? Listen to This Podcast

In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it. → Read More

Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2: Episode One

Before she entered a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons, who was Klára von Neumann? → Read More

The Long, Strange Voyage of Ancient Texts

In "The Map of Knowledge," Violet Moller follows several precious scientific books through the Middle Ages. → Read More

Giving Voice to Big Tech's Haves and Have Nots

With echoes of Studs Terkel, "Silicon City" uses 45 interviews to chronicle the chasm between San Francisco's gilded class and those left behind. → Read More

A Mother Explores Her Autistic Son's World, and Likes What She Finds

In 'To Siri With Love,' Judith Newman reports that forming bonds with machines is just one more way of being human. A book review by Katie Hafner. → Read More

My Attention Disorder Was Brought On by my iPhone

I've allowed technology to give me an attention disorder. Here's what I'm doing to reclaim my focus. → Read More