Coder Dee Tuck Is on a Mission to Help Diversify Hollywood
Dee Tuck has heard all the excuses. “I want to hire more women, but I just don’t know where they are.” Yep. “I want to hire more people of color,…
To Observe the Muon Is to Experience Hints of Immortality
The known universe seemed, briefly, muonstruck. But it took only 12 days for another Italian physicist to throw cold water on the bliss. Carlo Rovelli, a founder of loop quantum…
Then a Hacker Began Posting Patients’ Deepest Secrets Online
The next morning, Jere checked Twitter, where he was both horrified and relieved to learn that thousands of others had received the same threat. “Had I been one of the…
How Pixar Uses Hyper-Colors to Hack Your Brain
Take the scene where the old ghost Chicharrón dies unremembered in the Land of the Dead. It’s a tear-jerking sequence, but the color palette is still just as wide (though…
Who Let the Doge Out? The Cryptocurrency Is As Nutty and Joyful As Ever
Every human endeavor must have its influencers, and Dogecoin is no exception. But in case these influencers haven’t influenced you yet: Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency, a virtual medium of exchange…
Portraits of a Neighborhood’s ‘Wood Wide Web’
Sometimes, mature douglas firs send sugar to saplings via miles of underground, gossamer-thin mycorrhizal fungi. Through these same passageways (the “Wood Wide Web”) birches can loan carbon to fir trees…
Bed Tricks, Cod, and the Hidden History of Catfishing
Angela introduced Nev online to an 8-year-old prodigy painter, a 19-year-old seductress, and a whole cast of supporting characters composed of MP3 fragments, online video, photographs, text messages, and nearly…
Sci-Fi Writer or Prophet? The Hyperreal Life of Chen Qiufan
But for the people working in the genre, the sudden crush of attention and esteem has been vertiginous. “None of us had the goal of taking over the world,” says…
While Jack Dorsey Mans the Monastery
The day of January 6, when he hurled down the lightning bolt that cast Donald Trump out of Twitter and into outer darkness, should have been @jack’s debut as an…
‘2034,’ Part V: Sailing Into Darkness
She made a request to disable all of the avionics in one of her fighter squadrons, VMFA-323, the Death Rattlers, the only Marine squadron aboard the Enterprise and the only…