The magazine you now hold in your hands is 125 years old. Not this actual issue, of course, but the […]
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The year is 2149 and people mostly live their lives “on rails.” That’s what they call it, “on rails,” which […]
The UK’s Office of National Statistics has an online life expectancy calculator. Enter your age and sex, and the website […]
The power of pornography doesn’t lie in arousal but in questions. What is obscene? What is ethical or safe to […]
The other day I idly opened TikTok to find a video of a young woman refinishing an old hollow-bodied electric […]
In 2016, I attended a large meeting of journalists in Washington, DC. The keynote speaker was Jennifer Doudna, who just […]
Leaving aside meteorites that strike Earth’s surface and spacecraft that get flung out of its orbit, the quantity of materials […]
When it comes to climate breakdown and the extinction crisis, the question I get most often is: How can we […]
There is a photo of my daughter that I love. She is sitting, smiling, in our old back garden, chubby […]
Happy birthday, baby. You have been born into an era of intelligent machines. They have watched over you almost since […]