Whatever happened to “Download on the App Store” buttons?
They used to be all over the web; now they’re almost extinct.What ever happened to “Download on the App Store” buttons?What buttons?Not...
The fate of the Endangered Species Act rests on 2 simple words
The Endangered Species Act has stood as a pillar of conservation in the United States since 1973, bringing animals...
Scientists restore a brain protein and reverse signs of aging in mice
Memory problems, thinning skin, and declining bone mass may seem like separate consequences of growing older. Yet experiments in mice s...
In Savannah, Georgia’s utility regulators faced public wrath over data centers
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These blood thinners may have an unexpected benefit for Alzheimer’s patients
People who have both atrial fibrillation and Alzheimer's disease may experience slower cognitive decline when treated with newer NOAC b...
Federal transit cuts could hit rural America hardest
As the executive director of the Living Independent Network Corp, Jeremy Maxand does what he can to help people wh...
Altman and Amodei’s “unsafe at any prompt” moment for AI
Nader’s fight was never about one car, and neither is this one. AI assisted.Detroit spent a decade calling crashes driver error. The AI...
Nothing has changed other than how we talk about it
Why AI and Design Thinking were made for each other.Design Thinking and AI were made for eachother.Before a single pixel illuminates in...
Rethinking writing in the world of design and AI
What 100 articles taught me about thinking, friction, and the Shoggoth on the horizonOne hundred design articles, each a small act of t...
Juneau can’t stop the floods, but it’s learning to see them coming
Two years ago, John Lowrey woke to the roar of water surging into his home. The 65-year-old retiree and father of ...
Textbooks may have misdrawn this basic brain structure for 100 years
The brain's microscopic wiring may need a different kind of textbook illustration. Instead of the smooth, narrow tubes commonly drawn e...
The future of large-scale experiments and their challenges in the digital era
Duflo, E. & Banerjee, A. Poor Economics Vol. 619 (PublicAffairs, 2011).Rajkumar, K., Saint-Jacques, G., Bojinov, I., Bry...
A trip down the road that will determine the fate of the Amazon
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Hidden “immune organ” in the skull may help fight brain cancer
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified previously unknown lymph node-like immune structur...
What Shakespeare got wrong about AI
He wrote about a magic you could always stop. We built the kind that gets loose.He understood us better than science fiction ever has. ...