Wired columnist and tech writer Clive Thompson unpacks his optimistic take on computer technology -- it's making us, and our kids, smarter.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jim Crace's novel "The Pesthouse" takes place in America after an un-named eco-disaster has decimated the population and destroyed much of our hi-tech civilization.
So romance is about attraction, about intimacy, and sometimes about sex.
Sometimes, it's also about love.
So now for an even larger question: what the heck is love?
Psyhchologist Barbara Fredrickson's says love is more brief - and more available - than we think it is.
Did you hear about our sci-fi short fiction contest? If you want some inspiration, here's Junot Diaz on why he's a big sci-fi fan.
Historian John D’Emilio is the author of “Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin.” D’Emilio says that Rustin was crucial to the civil rights movement but has been forgotten because he was gay
About a year ago, independent producer Karen Michel moved from Brooklyn to Pleasant Valley, New York, near the Hudson River. She prepared this piece as a way of getting to know her new neighbors
Mukoma Wa Ngugi is a poet and English professor who writes crime novels set in his native Kenya. He says the crime genre lets him write truthfully about race, class and violence in cities like Nairobi.
Lars Svendsen talks with Anne Strainchamps about boredom's long, long history. Or maybe it just seems that way.
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