Podcast #19: Tim Kasser Talks Materialism
Tim Kasser has spent over two decades studying the relationship between materialism and well-being. As it turns out, they don't always go together.
Geofencing: Corporate Surveillance in the Real World
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Geofencing: Corporate Surveillance in the Real World
Geofencing is the way corporations and advertisers track your every move–literally.
Genetic Testing Kits: Unprecedented Privacy Risks
Consumer genetic testing puts sensitive, irreplaceable data about you—and unwitting members of your family—in places you can’t control.
Q&A with David Sax, Author of The Revenge of Analog
Our own Art Keller chats with author David Sax about the themes in his book The Revenge of Analog.
Our First Print Issue
The Technoskeptic arrives in print!
Genetic Testing Kits: Fueling Historical Discrimination?
Ideas about genetic identity have fueled racism, discrimination, and even forced sterilization, making mass DNA gathering a fraught proposition.
Go Fourth
A brief note on America’s 242nd birthday.
The Death of Natural Childbirth
The second part of a series on childbirth examines how natural birth has been systematically disabled, at the cost of bonding and health.
A Call for Ideas
Publisher Mo Lotman looks for ideas and suggestions as he embarks on a nationwide trip this summer.
The Attack on Natural Childbirth
Over the past century or so, the most natural and integral part of the human life-cycle—birth—has been systematically medicalized and institutionalized, at the expense of the body’s own wisdom.