Social Justice 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 Bonnie Tsui
Social Justice Live from New York, It’s Mozart and Strauss Could simulcasts at your local theater save the high arts, or sink them? Tom Jacobs
Social Justice 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! Elise Hennigan
Environment 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. Matt Novak
Economics 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. Joel Smith
Economics Take a Tablet and Wake Up Smarter? The One Laptop Per Child initiative is still struggling to find cheap computers for the developing world. Michael Todd
Economics The Touchy-Feely Future Haptic technology is letting us get fresh with our devices. (But no, it's not ready for porn yet.) Avital Andrews
Social Justice The Love Bot The danger of falling for a machine that’s just not that into you Robert Ito
Environment The Great Depression and the Rise of the Refrigerator How the gleaming white fridge changed our relationship to food. Matt Novak
Economics 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… Trish Reynales