Science & Technology

Drug Hunters: Meet the scientists building a library of future designer drugs / The Verge

Key change: After a decade in a minor key, the rapper Dessa scanned her brain to fall out of love / The Verge

Philip Tetlock's Tomorrows / Chronicle of Higher Education

Is Artificial Intelligence a Threat? / Chronicle of Higher Education

I paid $300 for DNA-based fitness advice and all I got was junk science / The Verge

Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data abuse shouldn't get credit for Trump / The Verge

Mental health startup Basis wants to replace therapy, but mostly provides a friend for a fee / The Verge

Why it's time to rethink the laws that keep our health data private / The Verge

Why the future of life insurance may depend on your online presence / The Verge

Why companies want to mine the secrets in your voice / The Verge

Japanese startup plans to test an experimental battery on the Moon / The Verge

Government pans on pot research have created room for marijuana health hype / The Verge

How far has technology come since the last 'smart border' failed? / The Verge

The armchair psychologist who ticked off YouTube / The Verge

Why Some Mosquitoes Prefer Humans / The New York Times

Meet the Chinese crowdsourcers fighting coronavirus censorship / MIT Technology Review

This startup claims its deepfakes will protect your privacy / MIT Technology Review

Employees say Google is trying to spy on them. That'll be hard to prove. / MIT Technology Review

Google contract voters voted to unionize. The law isn't on their side. / MIT Technology Review

This is how you kick facial recognition out of your town / MIT Technology Review

Three threats posed by deepfakes that technology won't solve / MIT Technology Review

How coronavirus turned the 'dystopian joke' of FaceID masks into a reality / MIT Technology Review

Desperate Venezuelans are making money by training AI for self-driving cars / MIT Technology Review

China's coronavirus app could have unintended consequences / MIT Technology Review

Emotion AI researchers say overblown claims give their work a bad name / MIT Technology Review

Is virtual reality here to stay, even after the pandemic subsides? / National Geographic

How Transgender Women are Training Their Voices to Sound More Feminine / Smithsonian

Who Needs to Learn How to Code / Wall Street Journal

3-D Printers Aren't Just for Engineers Anymore / Chronicle of Higher Education

Speed Reading Returns / Wall Street Journal

More Rational Resolutions / Wall Street Journal

You Are What You e-Read / Wall Street Journal

Crisis Centers Turn to Texting to Help Teens / Wall Street Journal

Different Way to Treat Depression: Games / Wall Street Journal

Mental-Health Crunch on Campus / Wall Street Journal

A Birth-Control Comeback / Wall Street Journal

Culture & Ideas

The Longest Relationship Of Our Lives / The Atlantic

The Rise of the 3-Parent Family / The Atlantic

The Limits of Sex Positivity / The Atlantic

Wanted: True Love. Reward: $100,000 / New York Times

This Language Is Only Used When Collecting Nuts in New Guinea / Atlas Obscura

A Very Public Intellectual / Chronicle of Higher Education

Review: The Secrets of Earth’s ‘Silvery Sister’ / Undark

Review: Refrigeration and the Many Virtues of the Cold Chain / Undark

How CBT techniques can make OCD worse / The Guardian

What I learned from AI journals / Psyche

Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen: 'My book has something to offend everyone' / The Guardian

Poet Robin Coste Lewis: "I am an artist through to my marrow" / The Guardian

Language is all convention: Talking with Elif Batuman / The Rumpus

An Interview With Sarah Smarsh, Author of HEARTLAND / Longreads

Essays & Criticism

Disease, Disposition / Kenyon Review

Meet Yourself / Lapham's Quarterly

Parting Shot / The Paris Review

What is Given, What is Earned / Hazlitt

Silicon Valley High / The Morning News

When You're From Wuhan, the U.S. Coronavirus Outbreak is Deja Vu / Slate

Tournament of Books 2018: THE IDIOT vs STEPHEN FLORIDA vs SAVAGE THEORIES / The Morning News

Why I No Longer Make Predictions (and the rest of my DATA column at Catapult)