Does a Changing Climate Mean we Shouldn’t Have Kids?
If the mean global temperature increases by 4°C then most of our coastal cities will be underwater. It might not…
True Believers: The Perils of Internet Fame
CN: this article contains discussion of gun violence and death Would you shoot your partner in the chest with a…
Gun Violence in America: Do the Right Thing
The AR-15 can make 45 holes in 60 seconds. A piece of American engineering, a highly-customisable semi-automatic rifle popular with civilian…
World Wide White: the online growth of white supremacists
Content note: this story contains discussions of hate speech and racial vilification New Orleans, April 27, 1981: eight men are…
Horror Stories You Need to Read: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales
H.P Lovecraft’s three favourite words – those that appear most often in his work – are ‘Abnormal’, ‘Accursed’, and ‘Amorphous’.…
A brief history of the online drug trade
The first online drug deal went down in the early 1970s, when a group of Stanford students used ARPANET –…
HOT TAKE: ‘Westworld’ is bad television
Westworld is a fun show with a big budget and a fascinating premise. I enjoyed watching Westworld, and so did…
Relax: Robots (Probably) Aren’t Going to Steal our Jobs
The robot revolution is coming. It’s going to make humans redundant; autonomous machines are going to steal our jobs in…
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Zuckerberg For President?
From little things big things grow. Nowhere is that more true than in the story of Mark Zuckerberg and his…
Cyber-terrorism Isn’t a Thing…Yet
Content note: This article contains discussions of violence and terrorism. Terrorists, unfortunately, are often at the forefront of innovative warfare.…