These are the world’s most ‘walkable’ cities
This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest…
Voter registration websites are crashing, locking out would-be voters
Earlier this month, the calls, many from swing states, started coming in to the Election Protection hotline, a service administered by the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for…
We keep looking for aliens — but are aliens looking for us?
Could extraterrestrials find life on Earth? The question of whether or not life exists on other worlds suggests pondering if extraterrestrial beings might be able to find life on our…
Why The Queen’s Gambit Is the No. 1 Netflix Show Right Now
In the new limited series The Queen’s Gambit, the only thing that’s real is the chess. Child prodigy Beth Harmon is fictional. The orphanage she went to, the addiction to…
22 Face Masks We Actually Like to Wear
In April, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that all citizens wear nonmedical face masks to slow the spread of Covid-19. Earlier this year, we wrote about…
The Most Glorious Video Game Music to Level Up Your Workday
After 10 years working from home, I’ve noticed some strange correlations in my productivity. In particular, I am far more sluggish and unmotivated when I forget to put on some…
Big Tech’s Election Plans Have a Blind Spot: Influencers
In the months before the 2016 election, Samuel Woolley worried a lot about bots being used to hijack political conversation online. Woolley, the director of propaganda research at the University…
What Should You Do About Holiday Gatherings and Covid-19?
The strangest, most confusing, most taxing year we Americans have collectively trundled through is about to get even more complicated: We now all have to figure out what to do…
How to Stop Getting Into Pointless Arguments Online
In some cases, you may feel so strongly about a certain topic and have such an urgency to share it with a large number of people, that maybe it is…
The AI Company Helping the Pentagon Assess Disinfo Campaigns
In September, Azerbaijan and Armenia renewed fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory in the Caucasus mountains. By then, an information warfare campaign over the region had been underway for several…