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The Last Invention of Man

How AI might take over the world.

September 25, 2017

Is There an Ideal Amount of Income Inequality?

A conversation with this month’s Ingenious, Venkat Venkatasubramanian.

September 25, 2017

Why Curiosity Can Be Both Painful and Pleasurable

The emerging neurology of one of our most human characteristics.

September 25, 2017

Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will

How the attention economy is subverting our decision-making and our democracy.

September 20, 2017

The Perils of Letting Machines into the Hive Mind

We think we know more than we do—including how machines will behave.

Manhattan’s God of Insects

Lawrence Forcella reminds us why we loved bugs as kids.

September 20, 2017

Why Hasn’t Evolution Made Another Platypus?

The debate over whether evolution is predictable or haphazard.

September 11, 2017

Google Thought I Was a Man

How Facebook and Google build a picture of who you really are.

September 9, 2017

A Letter to Einstein from the Future

Two Princeton physicists catch Albert up.

How We Cope with the End of Nature

As our environment crumbles, we seek solace in animatronic moose.

September 6, 2017

Getting Googled by Your Doctor

Will mental health clinicians become liable for missing your latest Facebook post?

August 30, 2017

Sexism Killed My Love for Philosophy Then Mary Astell Brought It Back

How one woman philosopher reinvigorated another.

August 30, 2017