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It’s a nice day, you’re strolling along, music’s queued up, prospects looking good, your sweater’s matching your…

The problem with having skin is that it’s not blemishless and can burn very badly and is liable to develop rashes or…

This week’s question—could the world ever run entirely on renewable energy?—is shadowed by a much larger one:…

In an ideal world, virtual reality would be just like regular reality, except without regular reality’s annoying…

If you would like to know what it feels like to die, while at the same time continuing to live, you have a number of…

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…