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From microplastics in our blood to plummeting sperm counts, the threats facing humanity seem innumerable. So, how do we get ourselves out of this mess – and more importantly, what’s next?

Medieval and early-modern workers did not have to go to work. Nor did they work from home; they just worked where they lived, or lived where they worked.

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Opening April 1, Weather Engines consists of an art exhibition, a program of talks, performances, and workshops as well as a book publication that offers contemporary terms for experiencing the politics and aesthetics of weather.

Luciana Parisi and Steve Goodman explore machine intelligence, the golem myth, and Black Atlantian music.

'we consider it impermissible to carry on business as usual in the present situation while lives in ukraine are being lost,' said strelka.

As casualties mount in Vladimir Putins war of aggression against neighboring Ukraine, the prominent Moscow-based Strelka Institute for Media Architecture and Design has issued a statement condemning the loss of life and announcing that it has suspended all academic activities until further...

Can its tech industry separate from the West’s? | Business

In his thought-provoking book on the pandemic, The Revenge of the Real, Benjamin Bratton argues that human society has a “sensing layer”: an infrastructure of technology and a knowledge base that allows us to know what is going on with increasing accuracy