It’s 10 P.M. Do You Know What Your Avatar Is Doing?
The psychologist Jeremy Bailenson’s quest to prepare us for the coming virtual world
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Live from New York, It’s Mozart and Strauss
Could simulcasts at your local theater save the high arts, or sink them?
Buenos Aires Painting the Town With Christmas Ornaments
What to do with thousands of abandoned Christmas ornaments stored in a down-and-out section of Buenos Aires? Turn them into a social science experiment, of course!
When Santa Traded His Sleigh for an Automobile
The American Santa of the end of the 19th century was a lot fatter and in a car—much like the average American a century later.
Finally, Perhaps, Answers to the Question of Whether We Are All Sims
University of Washington scientists think they've found a way to test Nick Bostrom's controversial 2003 theory.
Take a Tablet and Wake Up Smarter?
The One Laptop Per Child initiative is still struggling to find cheap computers for the developing world.
The Touchy-Feely Future
Haptic technology is letting us get fresh with our devices. (But no, it's not ready for porn yet.)
The Great Depression and the Rise of the Refrigerator
How the gleaming white fridge changed our relationship to food.
My Nuclear Bomb Detonates More Safely Than Your Nuclear Bomb
In yet another example of the serendipity of science, a University of Michigan research team applied “cocrystallization”—a process…