Giz Asks

The majority of scientists are, I’d wager, not particularly evil. Most just want to understand plants, or the Moon,…

Bodies are machines designed to remind you of death, to semi-continuously blare out the fact of your mortality,…

Scientists, or at least their wild-haired fictional counterparts, promised us time travel and still have not…

It is easy to be pessimistic about the future. It is also easy to scientifically verify that pessimism through…

Once a day, at least, I’ll tear up listening to music. Just a drop or two, or not even a drop, just a pre-cry…

The Neanderthal of popular imagination is a hideous, ape-like being, lumbering around with his or her crude spear.…

I’m writing this on a Tuesday, at 2:26 p.m. Minutes ago, it was 9 a.m., or so it feels; back then, I was enjoying…

Over 42 million Americans have so far received a dose of a covid-19 vaccine, as of early February. Importantly,…

Earlier this month, a kind of chirping, rainforest-y sound sprung up in my apartment. It came from my roommate’s…

Among the recreational drugs currently entering the psychiatric mainstream (MDMA, LSD, etc.), ketamine is something…

It’s easy to attribute omnipotence to one’s devices. I’d hate to know what my iPhone knows about me. That said,…

Earlier this year, a research team made waves by suggesting that we should disseminate Earth’s microbes on Mars in a…

At what passes for its best, technology would seem equipped to provide a slight relief from tedium/despair, or a…

Is your body perfectly toned? Are your workdays marathons of effortless achievement? Do your relationships proceed…

Spend enough time desperately googling cures for “brain fog” and “pathological procrastination” and you’re likely to…

To be alive is to feel fucking terrible, if not all then at least some of the time. Headaches, nausea, mysterious…

When you’re a journalist or club promoter or financier, fraud is always a gamble—you might be publicly disgraced and…

People say other people’s dreams are boring, but what if the problem is technology? As a sense-conveying device,…

I am going to answer this one right here in the intro: no, you can’t. In 2020, it is hard to just to go to the…

Perhaps there is a world, in a distant galaxy, where I am being paid $6,000 a word to write this introduction. In…