Claire L. Evans
A History of the Mothership, or Why Tom Cruise Blows Up Wombs to Save the World
Spoiler alert: If our hero is going to save the world, he has to find the mothership, go inside it—penetrate it—usually through a small aperture, and blow it up.
If We Want Anyone to Remember Humanity, We Need to Talk About Time Capsules
It takes a special, lonely kind of madness to consider, and plan for, a future thousands of years beyond the boundaries of our own graves.
A Pilgrimage to Unarius, From Public Access Television to Other Dimensions
A New Age movement survives after 60 years in a strip mall in suburban Southern California.
The Sound of (Posthuman) Music
Artificial intelligence is likely to surprise us in its complexity, its scope, its capacity for beauty—the same goes for the music it will make.
The Sound of Science Fiction: Can Music Be Future-Proofed?
From 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' to 'Star Wars' to 'Contact', our future music mostly tends to serve as a comment on the present. And aliens probably wouldn't be able to understand it, anyway.
The Pop Singularity of 'Transcendence'
The first Hollywood film about the modern singularity is as confused about the rise of AI as we are.
Higher Source: The Immortal Web Design of the Suicide Cult 'Heaven's Gate'
Led by Marshall Applewhite, Heaven’s Gate was a doomsday cult that funded its operations and eventual mass suicide by building websites.
Dead Letterhead: Writing by Hand in the Age of Email
Handiemail will earn comparisons to Spike Jonze's 'Her', but it's dead serious about handwriting your email.
How to Make Protest Music the NSA Can't Ignore
YACHT's Claire Evans explains what a protest song can do in 2013—from fundraising to igniting a crowd at last weekend's 'Stop Watching Us' rally.
Before Peter Gabriel Jammed with Monkeys, John C. Lilly Tripped with Dolphins
Certain that cetaceans communicate in a sophisticated sonar language, Lilly spent his life trying to crack a dolphin code.