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The Fate of Free Will
In Free Agents, Kevin Mitchell makes a scientific case for the existence of human agency.
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
by Kevin J. Mitchell
January 18, 2024 issue
Nothing to See Here
For centuries the study of optics and the use of invisibility in science fiction have developed side by side, each inspiring the other.
Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
by Gregory J. Gbur
Transparency: The Material History of an Idea
by Daniel Jütte
August 17, 2023 issue
Space-Age Magus
From beginning to end, experts saw through Buckminster Fuller's ideas and theories. Why did so many people come under his spell?
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
by Alec Nevala-Lee
November 3, 2022 issue
The Toll of the Clock
The clocks David Rooney studies in About Time are more than measuring devices; they are instruments of power, money, and faith.
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
by David Rooney
September 23, 2021 issue
Eclipsed by Fame
There's a scientific story to tell about Stephen Hawking, but most of his later life served to conceal it.
Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity
by Charles Seife
April 29, 2021 issue
Simulating Democracy
Jill Lepore’s new book looks into the origins of our diet of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and clickbait.
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by Jill Lepore
October 8, 2020 issue
Moon Fever
The fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing has produced a bounty of books, films, and exhibitions.
The Moon: A History for the Future
by Oliver Morton
Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, July 3–September 22, 2019
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
by Douglas Brinkley
The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions
by Brandon R. Brown
Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race
by Roger D. Launius
Apollo 11
a documentary film directed by Todd Douglas Miller
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys (50th Anniversary Edition)
by Michael Collins
August 15, 2019 issue
Matters of Tolerance
‘The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World’ by Simon Winchester
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
by Simon Winchester
October 25, 2018 issue
When They Came from Another World
What if the future is as real as the past?
Arrival
a film directed by Denis Villeneuve
Stories of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
January 19, 2017 issue
Today’s Dead End Kids
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
by Gabriella Coleman
December 18, 2014 issue
Time Regained!
Lee Smolin's 'Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe'
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
by Lee Smolin
June 6, 2013 issue
How Google Dominates Us
Our attention is what Google sells—concentrated, focused, and crystallized.
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
by Steven Levy
I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
by Douglas Edwards
The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry)
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Search & Destroy: Why You Can't Trust Google Inc.
by Scott Cleland with Ira Brodsky
August 18, 2011 issue
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