The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
How Deep Does Life Go? (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
How Fear of Regret Influences Our Decisions (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
The Deep and Enduring History of Universal Basic Income (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
What Boeing’s Door-Plug Debacle Says About the Future of Aviation Safety (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
Securing bolts properly is about the lowest-hanging fruit of high-reliability engineering.
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
Scientists Are Finally Taking Altered States of Consciousness Seriously (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
seriously thinking about experiments already before this article
An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechoslovakia (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
The Hidden Powers of Everyday Ritual (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
A Brief 200-Year History of Synesthesia (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
The Role of Myth in Language: From Lingua Adamica to Babel (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
Linguist Marina Yaguello traces the myths, legends, and religious narratives that have shaped humanity's understanding of the origins of language.
Be Strong in the Broken Places: My Journey With Alzheimer’s (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
A very beautifully moving, articulate first-person piece by Greg O’Brien, a journalist with Alzheimer’s....
“A Veil Was Broken”: Afrofuturist Ytasha L. Womack on the Work of Science Fiction in the 2020s (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
The Afrofuturism movement within sci-fi may be equal to this moment, in part because it grows out of a history of displacement, atrocity, and instability....