“He has demons.” The language of madness is the last resort for a society that can no longer deny the evidence of structural oppression and violence.
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What It’s Like to Lose Your Short-Term Memory
An exclusive excerpt from the new memoir by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Ayahuasca 2.0: Journeying to the Swampland of the Techie Soul
At The New Yorker, Ariel Levy reports on ayahuasca’s recent uptick in popularity in San Francisco among young people in the tech world, and in New York City among the young and the hip.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction
What Can and Can’t be Learned From a Book
How learning to swim at 24 led Syam Palakurthy to first-hand lessons in gentrification.
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction
The Successful Boycott of #DeleteUber and a New Era of Activism
#DeleteUber and the power of protest in 2017.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Nonfiction, Quotes
What Was Virtual Reality?
The stakes of inventing and occupying fictional worlds have always been high — which explains why we were so fascinated with virtual reality already in the 1990s, when the technology was still in its pre-infancy.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Why Are America’s Most Innovative Companies Still Stuck in 1950s Suburbia?
Why do tech companies keep building suburban corporate campuses that are isolated—by design—from the communities their products are supposed to impact? Oatman-Stanford looks at the history of corporate urban design and the midcentury rise (and continued reign) of the suburban office park.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
How Much is Too Much to Save a Dying Cat?
A series of losses prompts s.e. smith to wonder why, if it’s inevitable, we tend to view death as failure.
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Thursday in the Class With George It was a cold, gray October morning, misty and drizzling, when I arrived at Syracuse University’s Bowne Hall, a handsome three-story brick building that first opened for classes in 1907. The Syracuse campus is postcard gorgeous; literally a city on a hill, with beautifully-tended grounds and fine Victorian buildings […]
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The Tech Elite’s Quest to Reinvent School in Its Own Image
The creator of online education juggernaut Khan Academy has started a brick-and-mortar school in Silicon Valley. But can tech’s disruption culture create a stable learning environment?
