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Harris Fellows to Help Us Shine a Light on What Works in Cities
Can technology help civic decision making? Ed Finkel says yes in this exploration of what works in open data.
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How to Fall to Your Death and Live to Tell the Tale
Slipping in the shower, tripping down the stairs, taking a tumble in the supermarket – falls kill over 420,000 people per year and hospitalise millions more. We can’t eliminate all falls, says Neil Steinberg. So we must learn to fall better.
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A Bad Broadband Market Begs for Net Neutrality Protections
The broadband market is not a free market. That’s why people need net neutrality. Confused? Kate Tummarello explains for you.
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White Defenders
“Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence. Patrick Blanchfield writes.
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Wolf Evolution and “Settled Science”
Ricki Lewis reframes a discussion about wolf taxonomy into a discussion about the evidence for so-called “climate change.”
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Sunday Comics
“I’m not one who makes believe, I know that leaves are green. They only change to brown when autumn comes around. I know just what I say, today’s not yesterday, and all things have an ending.”
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A Nonviolent Strategy to Liberate Syria
Robert J. Burrowes considers a solution to the Syrian problem that requires no mourning mothers.
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Can the Laws of Robotics be Adapted for Paleontology?
Andrew Farke considers some rules for scientists to behave well, culled from Asimov and Roddenberry.
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Free Thing of the Week: Pepper and Carrot Motion Comic
Pepper and Carrot moves from comic strip to animation in today’s Free Thing.
