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Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Why AI-Generated Images Look Like the Stuff of Nightmares

AI images are less like paintings and more like fun-house mirrors

Jul 19 · 4 min read.

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Nick Howard inThe History Inquiry

Sex During the Black Death

Not everyone was praying for forgiveness during the plague. Some had more NSFW activities in mind.

Jul 20 · 6 min read.

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Guy Nave in Politically Speaking

Why White and Black Gun Owners Aren’t Equally Protected by the 2nd...

The 2nd Amendment is rarely invoked to ensure the rights of Black gun owners

Jul 19 · 12 min read.

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Jon Crabb

Web3 is turning out just fine, thank you

So what if there is no killer use case? Stop worrying about how web3 needs to get better.

Jul 19 · 9 min read.

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Hugh Bohane

Dark Days in Ukraine: A Cameraman’s War Journal — Part One

A boots-on-the-ground report from a journalist in Kyiv, deep in the warzone. This is part one of a two-part series.

Jul 16 · 9 min read.

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Cai Emmons

If I Could Speak Again

I’ve been dreaming recently that I can talk. In these dreams I always know that my ability to speak will not last; it will come and go, so…

Jul 13 · 5 min read.

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Luke Burgis

The Surprising Conformity of Non-Conformists

The orthodoxy of heterodoxy

Jul 17 · 7 min read.

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Michael Mignano

The Standards Innovation Paradox

Standards, like RSS for podcasts, have enabled emerging technologies to spread far and wide in the information age by

Jul 12 · 13 min read.

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Brad Stulberg

Beyond Fake Toughness

The truth about working through challenging situations

Jul 15 ·13 min read.

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Micah Sifry

Our Bodies, Our Activism

What pain, injury and illness can teach us about how to be a conscious citizen in today’s world

Jul 14 · 5 min read.

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Will Lockett in Predict

Rogue Planets? Or A Giant Alien Spaceship?

A recent study suggests these elusive objects could harbour advanced civilisations.

Jul 14 · 6 min read.

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Benya Clark

Who Is Gage Skidmore?

Meet the man who disrupted the photography world before graduating high school.

Jul 14 · 3 min read.

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