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The Stories Silicon Valley Tells Itself in Order to Live: A Conversation with Anna Wiener

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The Stories Silicon Valley Tells Itself in Order to Live: A Conversation with Anna Wiener

Sam Jaffe Goldstein

Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir about working in Silicon Valley.

Quantum Conversations, Entanglement, and the American Cold War “Physics Bubble”

Science & Technology, History

Quantum Conversations, Entanglement, and the American Cold War “Physics Bubble”

Michael D. Gordin

Historian of science Michael D. Gordin reviews his former lab partner’s new book on the fuzziness of the quantum world.

On Simone and André Weil: An Exchange with Karen Olsson

Philosophy & Critical Theory, Science & Technology

On Simone and André Weil: An Exchange with Karen Olsson

Ronald Collins

Ronald Collins interviews Karen Olsson about her book “The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown.”

Historicizing the Self-Evident: An Interview with Lorraine Daston

Science & Technology, History

Historicizing the Self-Evident: An Interview with Lorraine Daston

Jack Gross

Jack Gross interviews historian of science Lorraine Daston about her early work on rules, which has become newly salient in the age of algorithms.

Selling a Charismatic Technology

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Selling a Charismatic Technology

W. Patrick McCray

Historian of technology Patrick McCray reviews Morgan Ames’s new book on the MIT Media Lab’s One Laptop per Child program.

The Proliferation of Profilicity

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The Proliferation of Profilicity

Paul J. D’Ambrosio

From the Chinese Social Credit System to Facebook and Airbnb, what to make of our new era of profilicity.

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Alex Wermer-Colan

Alex Wermer-Colan interviews sci-fi legend Samuel R. Delany about queerness, history, literature, and identity as the author moves into his late career.

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Ramsey McGlazer

Another robot world is possible, one not built on hidden human labor and not dependent on damage to the soul

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Lydia Pyne

Lydia Pyne reviews "On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Fate of Evolutionary Eden" by Elizabeth Hennessy.

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Jean Comandon's 1909 "Spirochaeta Pallida (Agent de la Syphilis)" brought together the history of science and technology, sex and entertainment.

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