Artist, “bird noticer”, and concerned citizen of the digital state of the world Jenny Odell looks at many different ways of resisting the attention economy, sinking into the reality of our lives, and finding solidarity and agency with others.
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A new study looks at astronauts’ brains after they come back home.
The Planck length is a lot smaller than anything we’ve ever accessed. But is it a true limit? If you wanted to understand how our Universe operates, you’d have to examine […]
Protest music is a natural feature of humanity.
Stronger than the LHC and faster than anything except light, the world’s cleverest particle detector sees the particles we could never create on Earth. It might be true that there’s an […]
It’s a great time to be an astrobiologist—and for all of us to be asking, “Are we alone?”
It’s much more complex a question than dividing its mass by the volume of the event horizon. If you want to get a meaningful answer, you have to go deep. If […]
A new survey highlights the side effects of using Google to self-diagnose.
When one group says “A” and another group says “B,” consider that everyone might be wrong. One of the biggest enemies of scientific truth is the setup of a false dichotomy. […]
The organization argues that there is no evidence for this claim.
Astronomers find these five chapters to be a handy way of conceiving the universe’s incredibly long lifespan.
The top of Mauna Kea is the ideal physical site for this new, ready-to-be-built telescope. But that’s far from the only concern. For many years, astronomers have looked forward to a […]
A decade ago, we didn’t know if dwarf galaxies had black holes. Today, half of the ones we see aren’t where we expected. Normally, galaxies have supermassive black holes millions […]
A new study shows that nearly 40 percent of Americans report being stressed out by U.S. politics.
We’re living longer than ever, but few of us will save enough to afford this historical boon.
Vitamins do work — when eaten in whole foods, not pills.
Around 9 percent of the U.S. population believe the Pizzagate theory is true.
A new study reminds us that physical and emotional pain are not far apart.
The social media company’s recent transparency report claimed that it had taken down a staggering number of fake accounts — but it’s unlikely they’re catching them all.
There’s a reason they call work “work.”
Why do so many people report encounters with seemingly similar entities after taking DMT?
Shouldn’t mutually consenting adults be allowed to make these decisions for themselves?
Are we standing on the brink of Mutually Assured Destruction?
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will truly usher in a new era of astronomy. If you want to find the very first galaxy of all, you have to understand not […]
Sure, cosmic inflation has its detractors. But it also has something no alternative possesses: predictions and tests. Perhaps the most compelling part of any remarkable story is its origin: how it […]
A scientist in Sweden makes a controversial presentation at a future of food conference.
We trust science more than we even realize, and yet we’re quick to reject it. Why?
By the time John Paul DeJoria founded John Paul Mitchell Systems, he’d already sold encyclopedias on commission door-to-door, and he understood the importance of persistence in the face of rejection. […]
As this map of Bouguer’s gravity anomaly shows, the pull of the earth varies considerably by region.