Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old on a bet...

Sorgner makes the case for a Nietzschean transhumanism...

Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods,..

Appelbaum reconstructs how elites, through visual and textual methodologies, envisioned the nation and its component parts...

Turner explains why AI is unique, what legal and ethical problems it could cause, and how we can address them...

Whitington examines the dynamics and discourses centered around the development of hydropower dams in the Mekong River Basin...

Adrian Wisnicki talks about the British expeditionary literature of the late 1800s.

Devlin builds on the science and the philosophy surrounding our most intimate relationship with technology...

D'Ignazio and Klein call for changing the way we think about data and how it is communicated, particularly through visualization...

Rechtenwald argues that Big Digital technologies and their principals represent not only economic powerhouses but also new forms of governmental power...

Should robots have rights?

How does the world of book reviews work?

If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media...

Amy Shira Teitel talks about Apollo and the community of people who are deeply attached to space history.

Dr. Alistair Sponsel talks about Darwin’s experiences on HMS Beagle and his early career as a naturalist...

Jones engages readers in a five-year mixed-methods study she conducted on the erotic webcam industry where she tells a pornographic story about the multibillion-dollar online sex industry that is colloquially known as “camming.”

Minerva discusses the moral concerns of cryonics...

Halegoua rethinks everyday interactions that humans have with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world...

Eyal argues that what needs to be explained is not a one-sided “mistrust of experts” but the two-headed pushmi-pullyu of unprecedented reliance on science and expertise, on the one hand, coupled with increased skepticism and dismissal of scientific findings and expert opinion, on the other...

The disappearance of the Franklin Expedition in 1845 turned the Arctic into an object of fascination...

How can we possibly improve the chances that the human family will not only live, but live well, into the 21st century and beyond?

What is the human and environmental cost of music?

Newman sets out to provide an explication of the debates surrounding network neutrality...

Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Willy Ley, and the NASA rocket engineer Wernher von Braun...

Ochs combines experiences from her childhood with her research and expertise on teens and teen culture to write about experiences of teens and parents in navigating smartphones and increasing access to digital spaces...