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In the digital era, you have two choices: unplug your modem or bear witness to the world. Virginia Heffernan explains how the internet is more than an entertainment arena, it’s also a courtroom floor.

Cast off your Luddite gloom. The Internet is simply the greatest thing to ever happen to the world. It incorporates every element of art, culture, and ingenuity, taking humanity to a wholly new era.

Electronics factory workers in Shenzen have a their own manufacturing scene going at night.

The distinction between the online world and real life is thinner than we imagine. So when comment trolls run rampant, our national discourse cannot help but be changed.

Certain sounds, like chewing, drive misophonia sufferers mad. New research might have found a neural misfiring. 

Elon Musk wants to put 1 million people on Mars in 40 years. The internet had questions. Here are his answers. 

1% of all Google searches are health queries. Cyberpsychologist Mary Aiken explains how artificial intelligence diagnostics lead to psychosomatic symptoms, and potentially explain the fourfold increase in iatrogenic death in the US since 1999.

There are many scientific explanations for ghost sightings. This is the first ever to involve CERN.   

The way to greatness requires us to look forwards, not backwards. “Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, […]

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Jace Clayton AKA DJ/Rupture on sleuthing for beauty and surprise in the digital-musical landscape. 

We urgently need fresh new thinking in order to address the scale and gravity of today’s global challenges, which have outgrown the present system’s ability to handle them. 

We are only just beginning to understand how easy access to information is reshaping how we think.   

Many teens are showing up to school sleep-deprived from late night social media use, and it may be hurting their academic performance. Researchers find that “over a third of young people appear to be waking up during the night to send or check messages via social media.” 

Bill Nye is always dressed for a party, but this time his celestial bow-tie pays respect to one of our era’s greatest discoveries: gravitational waves.

Plants can even ward off invaders through “Earth’s natural internet.”  

Did decentralizing top-down media control bring us any closer to the truth-topia we were hoping for?

Could Pokémon GO be considered art? Journalist Virginia Heffernan believes the game bears the hallmarks of great art — exploration, movement (of the soul or the soles), and a call to instinct.

A debate rages over whether brick-and-mortar or online retail will ultimately claim the greater share of consumer hearts and wallets. While that debate continues, however, a new channel has emerged – the home robot. Your home robot is more than just a little helper; it (often referred to by some as she or he) is a new and powerful influential link between consumers and businesses.

According to Pulitzer prize-nominated writer Nicholas Carr the internet is a utopia in which we never have to confront anything. When technology and humanity intersect, how does it affect our brains, our intellect, and our ability to explore? 

Sometimes, designing a careful experiment and measuring absolutely no effect can be the most important result of all. “It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any […]

How should we view the amendment to Rule 41? Edward Snowden would have you believe it returns us to a time when a tyrant ruled over America.

When the rest of the world chooses nationalism, Iceland chooses radical change.

Work on “memes” by Richard Dawkins provides insight on the spread of thought viruses.

Is the technology of the future more radical than the technology of the past? Alison Gopnik provides some historical perspective.

Many of us balk at the idea of biotech implants as an affront to privacy and good old-fashioned humanity – but what if it could restore your eyesight and prevent Alzheimer’s, what then?

The series is said to improve male performance and address any issues.   

Risks abound for those plucky few willing to put their lives on the line to populate the Red Planet.   

The driverless car is coming – but what will *you* being doing in your self-driving car? Robotic cars will give rise to a new ridership economy of on-the-go services and experiences.

Despite our romanticized vision of social media as a global town square overflowing with diversity, the reality is that each user’s experience is hyper-filtered.    

Researchers at MIT have developed a system that can read a person’s emotions, even hidden ones, at a distance.