Rafalow provides an ethnographic study of students and teachers at three Los Angeles schools utilizing instructional technology...

Wang explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it...

While various systems theories have received rigorous treatments across the literature of the field, reliable and robust advice for systems practice can be somewhat harder to come by...

Leguizamón explores why Argentines largely support GM soy despite the widespread damage it creates...

What are chromosomes? And what does it mean to treat them as visual objects?

Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology focuses on the emerging scientific discipline of astrobiology, exploring many of the humanistic issues this multidisciplinary field is generating.

The Icelandic mappae mundi were a series of maps produced in the late medieval period (c. 1225 - c. 1400) that bore witness to fundamental changes in the landscape of vernacular literary culture, scientific thinking and regional geopolitics...

Rhodes explicates the sixteen specific duties that doctors take on when they join the profession...

Strocchia continues the work of her career: recentering the discourse to include the formative contributions of women in the Italian Renaissance...

At the book’s center is a neglected treasure of the late Renaissance: the Four Elements manuscripts of Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1600), a learned Netherlandish merchant, miniaturist, and itinerant draftsman...

Just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself....

Deudney argues that the major result of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global nuclear war...

DeNardis shows that the policy tools and normative constructs we have built around the internet are outdated...

Monopoly, Solitaire, football and Minecraft are all games, but for C. Thi Nyugen they are also an art form – specifically, the art form of agency...

Are robots going to be our overlords? No, we can make them our friends...

Cmiel and Peters provides a genealogy of the information age from its early origins up to the reign of Google...

Rutkow retraces the fascinating, decades-long history of the attempt to build the world’s longest highway...

Liu’s book offers a fascinating new history of this ubiquitous beverage, leveraging its production, consumption, and global circulation to offer a fresh and compelling account of capitalist accumulation....

This is the second episode of a two-part conversation with Hodgson...

A compelling argument that the time has come to use what we know about the fascinating and diverse inner lives of other animals on their behalf...

Myers and Frumkin illustrate the interconnectedness of human health and the health of our planet...

Rahder offers a rich ethnography of knowledge-making practices in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, the largest nature reserve in Central America...

In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are—intelligent, aware, and empathetic. Studies show that animals are astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities...

The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern...

Medical marijuana laws have spread across the U.S. to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition creates dilemmas for patients who participate in state programs...