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July 27, 2023
The Digital Mind
What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evo…
July 26, 2023
Codename Revolution
The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinvention in video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed …
July 25, 2023
In Praise of Reason
Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comes down to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what y…
July 24, 2023
Consciousness
What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysi…
July 22, 2023
The Future Was Here
Long ago, in 1985, personal computers came in two general categories: the friendly, childish game machine used for fun (exemplified by Atari and Commo…
July 20, 2023
Infectious Behavior
In Infectious Behavior, neurobiologist Paul Patterson examines the involvement of the immune system in autism, schizophrenia, and major depressive dis…
July 19, 2023
Indra’s Net and the Midas Touch
We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding a…
July 18, 2023
Hello Avatar
Hello Avatar Or, {llSay(0, Hello, Avatar ); is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. Co…
July 17, 2023
Small, Gritty, and Green
America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities--Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others--increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutte…
July 16, 2023
The Silent Epidemic
We will not find “exposure to burning coal” listed as the cause of death on a single death certificate, but tens of thousands of deaths from asthma, c…
July 15, 2023
Working on Mars
Geologists in the field climb hills and hang onto craggy outcrops; they put their fingers in sand and scratch, smell, and even taste rocks. Beginning …
July 14, 2023
Take Back the Center
Midcentury America was governed from the center, a bipartisan consensus of politicians and public opinion that supported government spending on educat…
July 13, 2023
Logistic Clusters
Why is Memphis home to hundreds of motor carrier terminals and distribution centers? Why does the tiny island-nation of Singapore handle a fifth of th…
July 12, 2023
Borges and Memory
Imagine the astonishment felt by neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga when he found a fantastically precise interpretation of his research findings in…
July 11, 2023
The Art of Failure
We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video ga…
July 10, 2023
Robot Futures
With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond…
July 9, 2023
What Was Contemporary Art?
Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as if the very idea of art that is contemporary is new. Yet all works of art wer…
July 8, 2023
Ambient Commons
The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, larg…
July 6, 2023
Moving Innovation
Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie and…
July 5, 2023
Alelard to Apple
The vast majority of American college students attend two thousand or so private and public institutions that might be described as the Middle—reputab…
July 4, 2023
The Outer Limits of Reason
Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science…