Natalie Shoemaker
Contributing Writer
Natalie has been writing professionally for about 6 years. After graduating from Ithaca College with a degree in Feature Writing, she snagged a job at PCMag.com where she had the opportunity to review all the latest consumer gadgets. Since then she has become a writer for hire, freelancing for various websites. In her spare time, you may find her riding her motorcycle, reading YA novels, hiking, or playing video games. Follow her on Twitter: @nat_schumaker
Kids also need to be taught technology habits to get the most out of the Internet.
Futurists never imagined the humble bicycle would be the transportation trend of the 21st century. Nor that our smart devices could be making us dumber.
In a world where we all eat fake meat — and so stop breeding domesticated livestock — the animals happiness we prize could simply disappear.
Your grandparents got way more nutrition out of their vegetables.
Seeking to right past wrongs and bring privacy back into the hands of the people.
Researchers are looking for signs of life in different places: in their destruction, like that of a nuclear apocalypse.
It’s good to know that a shift in thinking can help us to combat the effects these images hold over us, but it’s difficult to maintain this forever.
Or did you not even realize you were being watched.
Human population will rise to 9.7 billion by 2050 and further still to 11.2 billion by 2100. Not to mention global warming.
Researchers develop an AI system that will predict how bad pollution will be in China’s cities 72 hours in advance.
We’re seeing a shift in our economy toward subscription-based programs.
Algorithms are in charge of hiring people and data collection. You should have the right to know what they’re saying about you.
Let’s first cut carbon emissions that don’t make positive returns on human happiness.
It starts with how we approach education.
The ethics and realities of autonomous cars.
Researchers track thousands of healthy honeybees to figure out what’s leading to their decline.
And having network of social support is great medicine.
But it doesn’t have to be.
Thanks, climate change.
Couldn’t we just get all the nutrients we need from food?
An influx of humans into any environment can mean trouble for the local animal population.
Disagreement helps prevent a company from becoming stale and succumbing to groupthink.
Hallucinations and distortions in reality ensue — no drugs required.
With the amount of destruction we’re causing, is it time we curbed our own population?
Apes share some very human characteristics, displaying intelligence, language, and now, possibly, speech. So, what does it mean to be human, exactly?
Dr. Christopher Watson explains the barriers to finding another haven for human life.
Meet the man who’s offering the gateway drug to get everyone on board with Elon Musk’s solar-fueled future.
Consider the octopus: a creature, researchers say, unlike anything here on Earth.
Researchers find out the origins of an ancient feud.
Economists have been experimenting with randomized controlled trials to find out.