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Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.

According to Peter Ward’s “Medea hypothesis,” photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.

Wild boars in the sewers of London. Augmented humans of the future. Jason’s high school friend, celebrated children’s author Jacob Sager Weinstein, on imaginary histories and possible futures. 

Demagoguery, colonizing Mars, and the perpetual pendulum of party politics. Princeton Historian Sean Wilentz on the Think Again podcast

We survey the groundbreaking ideas of 2011 from experts such as Daniel Kahneman, Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis, Sal Khan, Daniel Burrus, Michio Kaku, Steven Pinker and many others. 

Oh how I wish David Foster Wallace had been my English professor. The University of Texas has recently posted the syllabus from the English 102 class he taught at Pomona […]

Each state has its own state bird; why not a state movie? 

This semester in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]