Plastic’s Legacy of Pollution
Our obsession with disposability and sterility has ironically led to an explosion of plastic, which is non-biodegradable and full of contaminants.
Category: Health
Should the National Parks Break Up With Cars?
America’s national parks are overcrowded and underfunded. Would banning cars improve everyone’s experience?
Podcast #11: Narayan Liebenson on Mindfulness and Attention
Narayan Liebenson, a guiding teacher at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, speaks to us about the benefits of mindfulness and attention. How might smart devices be impacting our ability to be present?
Mark Schatzker on Flavor and Food
The Dorito Effect author Mark Schatzker describes what he learned about the relationship between flavor and nutrition, and how the food industry has been leading us astray.
Podcast #10: Nicole Freedman on Bike Transit
When Nicole Freedman became Boston’s first “bike czar,” the city had been rated worst in the country in bike friendliness by Bicycling Magazine. A decade later, it’s been in the top ten with a growing network of protected lanes and one of the nation’s first major bike-sharing programs. Freedman describes what it takes to change culture around transit and how everyone can benefit.
All I Really Need to Know About EMF I Learned After My Wife Got Sick
Jonathan Mirin’s multi-year journey to find the source of his wife’s illness led him to something now so ubiquitous, it’s nearly impossible to avoid: electromagnetic radiation. In the process he learned what industry and government don’t want to talk about.
2016, The Year in Review
A look back at the biggest technology-related stories of 2016.
The Technoskeptic Ad Translator
Check out The Technoskeptic’s take on some particularly lampoonable technology ads.
Gene Genie, Out of the Bottle?
The “gene experiment gone wrong” has become something of a hackneyed trope in science fiction films—a scientist plays with some [...]