Born to a family of weavers in Switzerland, Emma Kunz was a mystic, who would sometimes work on a drawing for 48 hours without interruption. She divined the future using pendulums and though she cr…

People’s faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them, legal experts say.

We live in the Technic, but long for a life of depth and meaning. Where is our culture going, how can we live in harmony with the music of the world, and how shall we save our souls? These are the…

Tim Wu points out in his article The Oppression of the Supermajority that the much-vaunted political divides in this country are fictitious and that the country is largely unified. In fact what is …

Experimental schools like Hampshire College were once the cutting edge of academia. Now they’re struggling to stay open.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Caterina Fake. She's a co-founder of Flickr, a venture capitalist, and host of the podcast Should This Exist? about the impact of technology on humanity.

Mark Hollis has died, I recently learned from Brian Behlendorf’s post on Twitter, the frontman for Talk Talk, a band that started out with some easy pop hits, toured with Duran Duran and then…

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The majority of people who hold racist beliefs say they have an African American friend.

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Male student was suspended from the swim team but then was later reinstated despite harassment allegations.

We can summon cars at the push of a button, we can video chat with our grandparents, and we are connected to our friends 24/7.  Yet the same devices that enable those miracles have ushered in an ep…

Man is the only animal who does sex crime roundups. Or needs to.

It's the question of our times: How is technology impacting our humanity? Coming February 21, 2019, Should This Exist? invites the creators of radical new technologies to set aside their business…

Memory palaces, cuneiform, kung fu–for millennia we’ve pushed ourselves to recall with greater precision, learn faster, perform better and achieve more. One new technology in particular we’re about…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was in full deflection mode. The Democrats had blamed Russia for the hacking and release of damaging material on his presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton....

A judge ruled that federal prosecutors, including U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, then the Miami U.S. Attorney, broke the law when they signed a plea agreement with Jeffrey Epstein, a…

The entrepreneur and investor is launching a new podcast that wants to force the tech community to answer hard questions.

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I was quite moved by this post from a friend of mine on Twitter, because the same thing has happened to me several times in my life, and its uneventfulness is striking: There is, of course, a wond…

Just pre-ordered Mama’s Last Hug by Frans de Waal, based on this review, which starts, as the book does, with this anecdote: The two old friends hadn’t seen each other lately. Now one of them…

You know Henry David Thoreau, author, transcendentalist, author of Walden Pond, a celebrant of the simple life lived in nature? He seems an unlikely candidate for a technophile, but often the least…