The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing
When old tech dies, it usually stays dead. No one expects rotary phones [...]
When a Vintage RV Is Your Home, Repair Is a Way of Life
There's no temperature gauge. That broke several thousand desert miles ago. But you [...]
Brandon Sanderson Is Your God
Most will hear this and think: At that rate, none of the words [...]
How to Love Technology Again
We saw it written once that software was eating the world. What really [...]
I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory
I arrive in Taiwan brooding morbidly on the fate of democracy. My luggage [...]
Jenny Odell Can Stretch Time and So Can You
Ask any schoolchild how many hours are in a day and the response—24—will [...]
On the Trail of the Fentanyl King
In a nondescript house on a quiet street in a middle-class suburb of [...]
This Is a Philosopher on Drugs
there is something strange in the disinterest philosophers show for experimentation with mind-altering [...]
The Lie Detector Was Never Very Good at Telling the Truth
For months in the spring of 1921, a women’s-only private dorm at the [...]
The Mining Industry’s Next Frontier Is Deep, Deep Under the Sea
In October of last year, an enormous new creature appeared on the seabed [...]
The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing
When my son was little, my mom started collecting his outgrown clothes to [...]
Meet the Superusers Behind IMDb, the Internet’s Favorite Movie Site
By the time Les Adams arrived in Eastland, Texas, in the 1960s, he [...]