American - Journalist | 1969 -
Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
Annalee Newitz
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I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.
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With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.
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Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.
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Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground.
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When Usenet was eclipsed by websites in the late 1990s, people from that world - many of them programmers - wanted to bring the freewheeling, amazing discussions of Usenet to the web. And thus, RSS was born.
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A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth.
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Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends.
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We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.
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If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops.
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When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.
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The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.
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