How Did Kansas City Become Google’s Internet Guinea Pig?
The city’s infrastructure helped, but the aggressive organizing of non-profits made it work. By Rick Paulas (Photo: zachwerner/Flickr)…
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How One School District Used Buses to Bring the Internet Home
First, Coachella Valley Unified School District Superintendent Darryl Adams got his students iPads. Then, he had to figure…
Do Deaf Babies Need to Be Fixed?
As medical science improves, the line between “sick” and “different” becomes harder and harder to draw. By Malcolm…
Is Regulation the Answer to America’s Payday Loan Addiction?
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau just announced new regulations on the payday lending industry. Will they solve the problem?
Why Getting Pacific Island Nations on the Internet Is Difficult
And why telecommunications executive Denis O’Brien—the 219th richest person in the world—thinks Google and Facebook should start financing…
The Rickety Smartphone Bridge
As a point of connectivity for low-income populations, the phone is less useful, more expensive, and ultimately more…
How Good Are We at Saving Animals From Extinction?
Manatees are making a comeback and may even get downgraded from “endangered” to “threatened.” What does that mean…
What’s the Real Rate of Sex-Crime Recidivism?
One sentence in a 1986 mass-market magazine continues to sway court cases involving sex offenders. By Steven Yoder…
The Town That Made Its Own Internet
In Greenfield, Massachusetts, 40 percent of the town’s residents didn’t have access to Internet, so the mayor hired…
What the Neurodiversity Movement Gets Wrong About Autism
I think it’s great that people want to normalize autism. But sometimes they gloss over how disabling it…