-
How to Optimize Your Headspace on a Mission to Mars
Exploring Mars and more distant worlds poses not just the engineering challenges but the challenges of our own minds. Ramin Skibba writes.
-
Universities Shouldn’t Just Treat Mental Illness – They Should Help Prevent It Too
There’s strong pressure on universities to do something about spiralling student mental health problems, but what is best?
-
We Shouldn’t Have to Beg Mark Zuckerberg to Respect Democracy
Facebook has moved away from being a common carrier to being a media company. Why don’t we treat it like one? Dean Baker writes.
-
“Lennon Walls” Herald a Sticky-Note Revolution in Hong Kong
Sticky note walls are changing the environment for protest and democracy in Hong Kong. Jeff Hou writes.
-
Sunday Comics
“Maybe just a ghost,” you say and forget about it. I stopped talking, then the Sunday Comics are talking to my nail stinging. I can snatch out; so cold, lost parts they are stinging me so cold.
-
Encounters With Anonymous: Tractatus Suburbio-Dilectus
Omar Willey returns to thinking about photography with his latest column on anonymous photographs.
-
A Mexican Engraver Revives a Mostly Forgotten Russian Printmaking Tradition
Alejandro Barreto discovered the lubki when he was learning Russian, and began to merge the Russian tradition with his own Mexican print work. Filip Noubel writes.
-
Off-Facebook Activity is a Welcome but Incomplete Move
Bowing out of Facebook’s data collection just got easier but it’s far from enough. Gennie Gebhart writes.
-
Free Thing of the Week: Wiki Loves Monuments
We bring you the winners of the largest photo competition in the world, Wiki Loves Monuments.
-
The Left Becomes Center: Financial Transactions Taxes and Beyond
Eventually sensible people change debates over economic policy, as those who finally fall in line last take the credit. Dean Baker writes.
