Science & Technology
Potato, Interrupted: Genetic Engineering for Disease Resistance
By Nicole Miller, from On Wisconsin Magazine
Almost every cultivated variety of potato is susceptible to late blight, except a genetically engineered variety developed in the late 2000s.
“We Are As Gods…”
By Eric Utne
Stewart Brand has become the techno-industrial state’s highest-leaping cheerleader.
Bob Ross Plus Google’s DeepDream A.I. Is Utterly Terrifying
By Graham Templeton, from Inverse
Watch Bob Ross through the eyes of A.I.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company
By Utne Reader staff
The not-so-boring Boring Company has big plans to eliminate your traffic woes.
How Can We Tell Whether Comey's Firing Was Justified
By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
Using behavioral science to figure out Trump's likely motive for firing James Comey.
Complicated Correlation of Science and Religion Interpreted in a New Way
By Alister McGrath
With no certain answers, comparing the complicated correlation of science and religion is no easy feat.
LED Streetlights Are Giving Neighborhoods the Blues
By Jeff Hecht, from IEEE Spectrum
Early adopters of LED street lighting are struggling with glare and light pollution.
Internet Privacy Doesn’t Mean A Thing … Yet.
By Meg Leta Jones
What would it look like for Internet privacy to be not an ideal, but a right, so that personal data could be hidden, deleted, and not return to loom over the future?
