Sci and Tech
Ever wonder how you’ll be managing your money in 2040? Betterment CEO Jon Stein explains how technology is going to change your finances. Read more...
Farmers markets are good and industrial agriculture is bad, right? Professor Louise Fresco says the real picture is much more complicated. Read more...
Researcher Emma Adam discovered a link between cortisol levels and experienced racism. Read more...
The robots are coming. But before they do, we’ll need to give them our morals. Queena Kim reports on why “moral philosophy” will mean big business in the tech world. Read More...
A new domain of genetics has made it easier to modify our genes. Read More...
The future is knowable… sort of. Philip Tetlock tells us what makes some people better at predicting the future than others. Read More...
It used to be really hard to hold onto what we’ve written or said. But now huge hard drives and the cloud can store all of the things we want (or don’t want) to remember. Read More...
It might seem like math doesn’t discriminate, but Seeta Peña Gangadharan explains how the algorithms that companies use can strengthen the biases that are already present in society. Read More...
Engineers put a man on the moon and built skyscrapers that stretch into the clouds. We talk with author Guru Madhavan about what we can learn from the way they tackle a problem. Read More...
Long gone are the steel town days. We head to the city of Pittsburgh to take a look at the burgeoning innovation economy. Read More...
