I used to be a Teletubby and a Cyberman. Now I design AI personalities and characters. The link is creating fictional ...

Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads is a somber, bittersweet tale of the singer/songwriter, and the harrowing tragedy of ...

When I was in my twenties I would hitchhike to work everyday. I’d walk down three blocks to Route 22 in New Jersey, stick out ...

Two rotating wheels slice paper the way an open scissors does occasionally. Absolutely marvelous for cutting wrapping paper ...

Drawing from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and Buddhist philosophy, Arrow explores how storytelling became humanity’s defining superpower, and reveals how the stories we tell ourselves about ...

Industrial tourism — factory tours for families and kids as well as technologists, is becoming a thing, especially in China. Good article: Tiger Moms Battle for the Hottest Ticket in China: a Tour of ...

Ted Kaczynski, the convicted bomber who blew up dozens of technophilic professionals, was right about one thing: technology has its own agenda. The technium is not, as most people think, a series of ...

About 400 people interested in serious self-tracking meet for the inaugural Quantified Self conference in May this year. Self-tracking means monitoring quantities like your weight, sleep, location, ...

I am not the first, nor the only one, to believe a superorganism is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our planet. No one can dispute the scale ...

In the early 1800s, half a million wolves roamed North America, but by 1862 settlers began pouring in from Europe and the ...

This is by far the best guide ever written for designing games. All kinds of games, simple and traditional, but of course video games, too. This fat book is packed with practical, comprehensive, ...

Take a look at these farm houses which I saw under construction in remote areas of Yunnan province China. They were not unusual; farmsteads this size were everywhere in rural China. Note the scale of ...