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With residents and staff dying by the tens of thousands, the very future of long-term care should be in question. → Read More
And maybe start including them in research instead of just assuming we know what they want. → Read More
Most of these patents are basically science fiction. Companies love them anyway. → Read More
Businesses and public policy makers are tapping novelists to imagine the path forward. But how much stock should we put in the predictions of storytellers? → Read More
What a 19th-century scammer can teach us about women, lying, and economic boom-and-bust cycles → Read More
Tech gurus are obsessed with treating bodies like machines—something a 30-year-old cartoon about a tricked-out detective suggests won’t work. → Read More
Winners of the both the Peabody and Webby Awards were announced in recent weeks. To enter both competitions, assuming a freelancer only wants to enter a single category, will run upward of $500. The Online Journalism Awards cost up to $175 per entry. The National Magazine Awards cost $395 per entry for non-members. The James … → Read More
The Italian Futurists praised invention, modernity, speed, and disruption. Sound familiar? → Read More
We imagined a form that managers might have to fill out in the future to request that a human do a job instead of a robot. → Read More
In the future, advanced directives for medical care will only become more complicated. → Read More
In this new series, we imagine forms from the future and break down what they say about our impending realities. → Read More
With each new device, we open up a legal conversation about privacy standards. Google Glass was a rare example of people pushing back. → Read More
ou’re looking at a map of New York City when a red stick figure drops on the corner of Nostrand and Atlantic in Brooklyn. “Lauren is having a heart attack!” To save her, you must get her to the nearest hospital. But as you do, several more stick figures fall from the sky, calling for … → Read More
Is meat the muscle of an animal? Or is it the remains of a living creature? If the former, this lab-grown stuff is meat. If the latter, it’s not. → Read More
Redditors and forum users invest time trying to solve incidents involving total strangers, only to be left hanging when their research pays off. → Read More
We did the math. → Read More
Elle Reeve with white nationalist Christopher Cantwell during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville in August Vice News The 22-minute “Vice News Tonight” documentary “Charlottesville: Race and Terror” provided a chilling look at the white supremacists behind the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August. It quickly went viral. “They were really, really, really… → Read More
A conversation with Bruce Miller on a bonus episode of ‘The Red Center’ → Read More
Shows are often crunched for time in season-ending episodes, and The Handmaid’s Tale is no exception. Its creators managed to pack a lot into the hour, and though Gilead persists, it’s clear that season 2 won’t be strapped for material. Rose and Laura talk, however, about how the source material of Margaret Atwood’s book is indeed exhausted by the finale, in some unexpected ways. → Read More
The ninth episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, “The Bridge,” shows us women on the edge. Janine literally so, but other women more metaphorically: June, Moira, Serena Joy, and even the Waterfords’ housekeeper seem ready to revolt. The cracks in the Gileadan system are now clear to everyone — not just the handmaids. Rose and Laura are left to wonder: Is Aunt Lydia the only clear-cut villain of Gilead? → Read More