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Tech

What Our Idyllic, Non-Dystopian Future Would Look Like If We Fixed the World

09.30.13

By Meghan Neal
Tech

Is Texas’s All-Digital Library Really the Future of Books?

09.23.13

By Zach Sokol
Tech

Monetizing Immortality: How Silicon Valley’s Tech Titans Are Trying to Disrupt Death

09.19.13

By Grace Wyler
Tech

When TV Ads Dare to Depict a Grim Future

09.13.13

By Brian Merchant
Music

MIXED BY Giraffage

08.05.13

By VICE Thump
Tech

Intuitive, One of the Nation’s Largest Robot Surgery Companies, Is Having a Difficult Year

07.19.13

By Derek Mead
Tech

What the Internet of Smells Will Smell Like

07.01.13

By Gavin Haynes
Music

Nine Indecipherable Future Lyrics

05.30.13

By Bauce Sauce
Tech

Outcast Japan: A Chat About the Future with Ryu Murakami

05.06.13

By Joseph George
Music

A Love Letter to Ciara’s “Body Party” Music Video

04.23.13

By Drew Millard
Sex

Editing Homophobia out of the “Islamic Tradition”

04.16.13

By Michael Muhammad Knight
Tech

Book Armageddon Is a Myth: Robin Sloan Loves Screens, Libraries, and Looking Back from the Future

04.10.13

By Lex Berko

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It was the second time that day I’d found myself talking to people about murderous dictators among the tombstones.

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Health

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There’s some great news for anyone out there hoping to reap maximum gains after putting in minimum effort.

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News

Why Scientists Are Rethinking What They Know About Greenland Sharks

Everything about them screams old and ancient. But what’s really going on?

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Music

Arctic Monkeys May Not Have Imminent Studio Plans, but Drummer Matt Helders Isn’t Ruling It Out

Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders revealed that the band wasn’t thinking of making a new album when they recorded a one-off single.

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