Research, argued. What the evidence actually says.
The most productive cognitive state is the one we've engineered out of existence. Default-mode network research suggests the mind does its best integrative work precisely when it has nothing to do, and we have made sure it never gets the chance.
A den-building, tool-hoarding invertebrate may be the best urban theorist we have. What two accidental octopus settlements off the Australian coast reveal about density, conflict, and the limits of solitary intelligence.
We finally have the numbers on what distraction costs. They are worse than the pessimists guessed. A look at what a decade of interruption research says about the true price of the attention economy, paid in switching costs nobody bills for.
Entire cities now exist twice, once in concrete and once in code. The copies are starting to disagree.
Every collection is a decision about who gets remembered. Librarians are the last people making it carefully.
We treat exhaustion as a private failing. The data says it's infrastructure.
Half of what you know will be wrong in a decade. The trick is knowing which half to hold loosely.
Cloud seeding, solar geoengineering, and the coming property disputes of the sky.
A table, twelve chairs, and a century of arguments. Why the seminar refuses to scale.