WHO GETS THE FIRST SHOT
Researchers may have a fix for Covid-19 vaccine shortages: Target the social butterflies.
by Christopher Cox

PRESCRIPTION FOR DISASTER
The story of hydroxychloroquine, a twisted tale pitting power against knowledge.
by Adam Rogers

Hit Men
The Matrix movies brought Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski together. Now the duo is killing it on the fourth John Wick—and still saving us from the machines.
by Angela Watercutter

America’s Plant Assassin Corps
To take out invasive species, the US relies on crews wielding hatchets and herbicide. It’s a messy, fun job—but it may not be enough to stop the spread.
by Sonya Bennett-Brandt

Engines of Wow
Generative AI can now make better art than most humans. Soon it will transform how we design just about everything.
by Kevin Kelly

“I’m Not a Tough Guy.”
Pedro Pascal cares about you. He’s also self-conscious about caring about you. This is exactly what makes him great.
by Hemal Jhaveri

The Hibernator’s Guide to the Galaxy
Scientists are on the verge of figuring out how to put humans in a state of suspended animation. It could be the key to colonizing Mars.
by Brendan I. Koerner

Feed Me
Pitcher plants are beautiful, rare, and life-consuming—in every way. How one collector’s obsession became a nightmare.
by Brian Howey

Elon Musk and the New Population Panic.

The Transcendent Tones of Nils Frahm.

WeWork’s Adam Neumann Tries to Reinvent Housing—Again...

Abandon Ship! - Society is falling apart. But Balaji Srinivasan is here to lift you safely out of the maelstrom to a country in the cloud. (Well, maybe not all of you.)

A Planet of Her Own - Sayaka Murata never felt at home on Earth. In her novels, she devises worlds where women reinvent sex, marriage, childbirth—and the boundaries of human existence.

The Lobbyist Next Door
What do a Real Housewife, an Olympic athlete, a doula, and a Nascar driver have in common? They’re all being paid by a new Beltway adtech startup as influencers—peddling not products but ideologies.
by Benjamin Wofford

Jolted Awake
It’s not every day—or every decade—that a book comes along and punches a hole in history. The Dawn of Everything did, and I had to meet one of the minds behind its world-tilting revelations.
by Virginia Heffernan

Call of Duty
He tried to save his wife through a video game they both loved—and nearly lost himself. Then he signed on to coach an esports team at a Wyoming junior college.
by Brendan I. Koerner

Strange New World
In the footsteps of Alexander von Humboldt.
Photo portfolio by Christopher Edward Rodriguez

Paradise at the Crypto Arcade
The Web3 movement wants to liberate us from Big Tech and exploitative capitalism— and to do it using only the blockchain, game theory, and code. What could possibly go wrong? 
by Gilad Edelman

The End of Alcohol
Glamorous influencers are blending science and superstition to help people “change their relationship to drinking.” Did I miss out by getting sober the oldfashioned way?
by Virginia Heffernan

THE RISE AND FALL OF YANDEX
It took 20 years to build Russia’s biggest tech company. It took 20 days for everything to crumble.
by Paul Starobin

A MILLION LITTLE PIECES
An entrepreneur is on a mission to rebuild the world’s reefs by speedgrowing slices of coral in hyperefficient nurseries.
by Rowan Moore Gerety

The Spirit of Clubhouse Animates the Social Web.
by Virginia Heffernan

Cloud Support: They Were Just Typing, Then … Nothing.
by Meghan O’Gieblyn

LONG-SHOT BOTS
The best-funded robotics teams in the world came to compete at Darpa’s Subterranean Challenge, an underground obstacle course for autonomous machines. In walked Kevin Knoedler and his scrappy band of undergrads, armed with parts from Craigslist. 
by Tom Vanderbilt

THE WEIRD HAND OF PROGRESS
Historian and sci-fi writer Ada Palmer says the past we think we know is wrong, and so is the future.
by Gregory Barber

REVENGE OF THE NERD
He didn’t fit into the cool-kid surf culture of Maui, but he went on to master nearly every extreme water sport you can imagine. No wonder the tech elite has a crush on Kai Lenny. 
by Daniel Duane

“IT’S HAPPENED AGAIN …”
A mother was convicted of killing all four of her babies. One scientist suspected a different culprit: mutant DNA.
by Oscar Schwartz

TRAVELS IN HYPEROBJECTIVITY
You know about climate change. But you don’t understand it. Not really. It’s too big, too complex. The philosopher Timothy Morton can help— if you’re ready to have your reality blown apart.
by Laura Hudson

THE CITY AND THE CITY
Where The Matrix foresaw a distinction between digital and physical reality, modern cities are merging them.
by Nicholas de Monchaux

THE COMMITMENT
Last year, tech companies scrambled to promise money and support for Black America. So what does the industry’s best shot at redressing the nation’s racial inequality look like?
by Victor Luckerson

BLOOD AND LIES
The system for testing drugs in the US relies on a network of contractors running clinical trials that adhere to strict guidelines. One lab owner chose profits over protocols, until someone tipped off the feds.
by Brendan I. Koerner

LOOKS THAT QUILL
The African pygmy hedgehog may be the most Instagrammable pet ever. But behind the tiny top hats and miniature spa weekends, I discovered a sad tale of internet virality.
by Noelle Mateer

THE NATURE OF TIDES
Last year in a bayside town in Nova Scotia, 3-year-old Dylan Ehler vanished. Online sleuths descended on Facebook groups to help with the search. Then they turned.
by Katherine Laidlaw

FLOWER VS. POWER
On a high desert ridge in central Nevada, there’s enough lithium to produce millions of batteries for electric vehicles. The one roadblock to mining it: a rare species of buckwheat teetering on the verge of extinction.
By Gregory Barber

UNDONE
We want to be productive. But even with hundreds of todo apps claiming to make us all taskmasters, we almost never master our tasks.
By Clive Thompson

SPIN DOCTOR
Mo Pinel’s bowling balls harnessed the power of physics—and changed the sport forever.
by Brendan I. Koerner

REVEL’S BUMPY RIDE
When the shared electric mopeds hit the streets, people went wild. Then came the crashes.
by Kate Knibbs

THE EXILE
When Google cut ties with Timnit Gebru, it called into question its whole system of self-scrutiny.
by Tom Simonite

SACRED COMMANDMENT/FALSE IDOL
The true story of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
by Gilad Edelman

NO ONE COULD DENY TIMOTHY WAS SICK
He was a sweet-natured 10-year-old one day and a disturbed, obsessive stranger the next. But when doctors can’t agree on the cause of the illness, what happens to the patient? 
by Seema Yasmin

ALWAYS A BRIDE
I called off my wedding in 2019, but to Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I am forever getting married. Why the internet won’t let us forget.
by Lauren Goode

SEX TAPE KING
Kevin Blatt is a master of Hollywood’s economy of secrets, hustling damaging clips off the internet—or into the hands of the highest bidder.
by Amanda Chicago Lewis

DEAR BIRTH MOTHER
As adoption migrates to Facebook, regretful adoptees and birth mothers are confronting prospective parents with their personal pain—and anger.
by Samantha M. Shapiro

THE HYPERREAL LIFE
While China’s sci-fi authors are elevated to the status of New Age prophets, Chen Qiufan’s career—like his genre’s place in society—has gone through the looking glass.
by Yi-Ling Liu

THE MYSTERY OF “MOSTLY HARMLESS” - The hiker’s body was discovered in a tent, his identity unknown. The internet started looking for clues—what they found was unexpected.

THE LION, THE POLYGAMIST, AND THE BIOFUEL SCAM - How a member of a religious sect teamed up with a tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Wén Rui Incident.

A Conversation With the Authors.

“In 10 or 15 years, we will have prepared the entire western slope of the Sierra Nevada to ignite in the greatest firestorm ever seen by human beings.”

LONE STAR - How one Texas county clerk set off the weirdest, most promising revolution in American voting technology since the 1800s.

THE MASTER’S TOOLS - Donald Trump’s brilliant use of Facebook was key to his 2016 victory. Now a group of former company staffers is trying to turn his playbook against him.

SAN FRANCISCO’S IMMUNE SYSTEM
Why did a city beset by dysfunction and inequality face the onset of Covid-19 better than any other major American metropolis? Because history gave it some very powerful and specific societal antibodies.
by Daniel Duane

BRUTAL HONESTY, UNCHECKED SOBBING
Scenes from a “selfbreakthrough” seminar in China.
by Yiren Lu

This is Nathan Wolfe.
We should have listened to him.

GAME/NOT A GAME
Trolls, hackers, and a real pandemic plague the sequel to a videogame about a pandemic.
by Darryn King

GLOBAL INDEMNITY
An ingenious insurance plan could have helped save the economy. So why are we in this mess?
by Evan Ratliff

27 DAYS IN TOKYO BAY
The Diamond Princess captivated the world as it docked in Yokohama, harboring the new coronavirus —and 3,711 people, who became reluctant subjects in a life-anddeath quarantine experiment.
by Lauren Smiley

THE FIVE BIGGEST QUESTIONS IN A.I.
Machines are learning faster by the moment. How are humans supposed to keep up?

THE INFLUENCER
India, the world’s largest democracy, is now the world’s largest experiment in social-media-fueled terror. Inside the rise of a Hindu vigilante in the age of WhatsApp and Modi.
by Mohammad Ali

WHAT HAPPENED TO LEE?
A genius coder lost himself. For a long time, no one knew why.
by Sandra Upson

We have one Earth—and the technology to save it. Go!

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