Category: Technology & Science

Strong civil mobilization fronted by the think tank Justitia prevented the Danish government from introducing unbridled mass surveillance. Justitia’s Executive Director tells us how they achieved this.

Facebook’s News Feed algorithm is made to serve ads, not please users. Rob Horning drops on you.

Traffic cameras plus Big Data plus credit card machines = law enforcement ka-CHING! Dave Maass gives you the goods.

Sleep tracking apps report passing dreams as waves. Jacqueline Feldman rides.

Social media has become a fundamental part of life. So what does healthy use of these sites look like? Miles Schneiderman considers.

Notoriously illegal and synonymous with hedonism, LSD and ecstasy started life as aids to psychotherapy. Sam Wong meets the band of psychiatrists who are looking to reclaim them for medicine again.

Cory Doctorow mindfully considers the bad juju of DRM on the Web.

From throwing away tons of plastic to spewing carbon into the atmosphere, there’s no question humans have irrevocably changed the world. Deirdre Fulton writes.

With humans encroaching on their habitat, how do mountain lions adapt? Alison Takemura writes.

Ida Jooste gives her account of ebola in Liberia.