Robot Rock Robot Rock
Video may have killed the radio star, but the vocoder liberates her voice.
Jun 9, 2010 / Books & the Arts / J. Gabriel Boylan
Gaming Your Brain For Violence Gaming Your Brain For Violence
What effect does training soldiers to "dehumanize" the enemy have on us? And are video games giving us in some part the same training?
Apr 9, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Minority Opinions on the iPad Minority Opinions on the iPad
The iPad -- It's very strange. It started arriving in stores April 1 and the reviewers are already calling it a game changer but one aspect of the new device is causing conster...
Apr 1, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Searching for CCS Searching for CCS
Will carbon capture and sequestration help us avoid runaway climate change?
Nov 19, 2009 / Feature / Holly Wren Spaulding
Invest in Innovation Invest in Innovation
The US economy rewarded the finance industry at the expense of our most creative problem-solvers. We need an innovation revival to grow our way back to health.
Oct 30, 2008 / Feature / James S. Henry and Jim Manzi
Networked Networked
Think you've read everything about Myspace? Think again. Social network expert danah boyd breaks it down.
Jan 24, 2007 / Kate Sheppard
The Gift of Time The Gift of Time
The case for abolition of nuclear weapons.
Feb 2, 1998 / Jonathan Schell
The Moon Will Wait The Moon Will Wait
In early 1969, Nation editors were skeptical about the space race, and NASA’s “juvenile, brutal approach” in rushing to get a man on the moon.
Jan 13, 1969 / The Nation
The Transatlantic Telegraph Will Concentrate Money and Power in the Hands of the Few The Transatlantic Telegraph Will Concentrate Money and Power in the Hands of the Few
“Where it is all going to end, and what kind of life the ‘merchant of the future’ will lead, nobody knows.”
Sep 27, 1866 / Richard Kreitner