Thoughts on Humanity
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Cooking made us human, and continues to remind us of what that means.
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30
On two birthdays.
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When We Build
“We make our world what it is, and we become the kind of people who live in it.”
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The Left Hand of Darkness
You can learn a lot from what makes you uncomfortable, if you can just get over that discomfort.
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Pump Six
Our species can barely handle the present day: how the hell are we going to handle the future?
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The Most Human Human
Trying to make computers pass as human can tell us a good bit about what it means to be human in the first place.
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You Are Not a Gadget
All technologies have an implicit model of what a user is, and the more we use them, the less we can help living up to however much or little they expect of us.
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A Week at the Airport
Who we are at the airport is who we truly are.