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One put it simply: “I think we’re all getting a little tired of being at the mercy of social media algorithms and…

In December 2021, megawatt American entertainer Ariana Grande posted a photo of herself wearing dark winged…

When we drive to Pennsylvania in the summers, with my daughters locked in to their screens for the miles and miles…

Gus Dupin, walking along the stillness of Stony Lake in the gathering night, recognized the sleek motorboat…

In 1939, the Great Depression still raging, the president of Zenith Radio Corporation, Commander Eugene F. McDonald…

When hormonal contraceptive pills were first introduced to the public in 1960, they were initially packaged in a…

He began to put together an excavation team. For this hazardous mission, he chose the gunner, John Bulkeley, though…

But it’s not only bats and aliens—fictional or optimistically imagined—who brandish subjective experiences we…

Given these real and growing risks to human flourishing, there is—just barely—time to be wiser. Looking at this…

Technologists want to recreate the sensitivity of certain animals to the subtle signals of impending danger in…