by Tayyaba Jiwani | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Accessible Science is Key to Public Trust For scientists, these are times both exciting and apprehensive. From designer babies to genomic medicine, artificial intelligence, and molecular surveillance, science is arguably the most dominant force defining our future....
by Shaina Goel | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
High-Tech and Haute Couture Cybernetic signs and symbols have increasingly become a magnetizing spectacle in contemporary culture. The cyborg as a hybrid of human and machine in high fashion runway shows of the late 20th and early 21st centuries and the ways in which...
by Carly Lewis | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
Måneskin: Italian Rockers on a Journey for Global Human Connection “Rock and Roll Never Dies!” From buskers on La Via del Corso to Eurovision winners, Måneskin shows what it means to earn a growing global platform and use it well This year’s Eurovision Song Contest...
by Rebecca Lipperini | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
The Soothing Aesthetics of the Supermarket I love the supermarket — fiercely, obsessively, weirdly. I go to the supermarket when I feel overwhelmed. And it turns out I’m not alone. I used to hang out at my local grocery store every day and see hundreds of other people...
by Megan Cole | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
Seeing Ecocatastrophe: Environmentalism and the Aesthetics of Climate Change It’s a truism for Octavia Butler fans: the postapocalyptic California landscape of her landmark Parable of the Sower (1993) is nearly indistinguishable from contemporary reality. In...
by Thomas Sojka | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
In Pursuit of THE PURSUIT OF LOVE The 2020s have arrived, bringing sensational headlines on the state of the global economy that anticipate “another Roaring Twenties” or condemn the comparison as “absurd.” What these headlines miss, and often obscure, is the reality...
