A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hit.
When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.
We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.
If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops.
Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations - perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization.
Michel Gondry's 'Green Hornet' was another franchise flick that felt like it came out of left field - I thought in a good way, but most audiences disagreed.
Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.
With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.
There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.
Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.
Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.
As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.
We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.
'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.
Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.
In many cities, it's become popular to hate 'gentrifiers,' rich people who move in and drive up housing prices - pushing everyone else out.
The novel 'World War Z' is told from the perspectives of so many people - speaking to the narrator - that there's no way a movie could capture all of them. Still, the idea of turning a zombie pandemic into a war story is fascinating and could have translated easily to film.
The first time I saw 'Star Wars,' I got so excited that I threw up.
Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.
