Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future

After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely?

23 and You

Does that commercial DNA test you just bought violate somebody else’s privacy?

Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy

Growing up with autism is a never-ending series of lessons in how people without autism expect the rest of the world to relate to them. This goes double for those who — like me — went undiagnosed until adulthood: the instructions are far…

Not Today

Learning how to cope with a body in revolt

Why I Left Google

Thoughts on trading in pride and security for authenticity

The OKCupid Question You’re Answering Wrong

…and more sexism in online dating

An integral part of the OkCupid experience — or at least, the part that the interface will never stop harassing you to keep doing, forever and always, until your…

“Why do women try to get ahead by pulling men down?”

I see comments along these lines pretty much every time the issue of gender inequality in tech comes up. A lot of men (and sometimes women) respond to women suggesting that men have to give up their privilege by saying “So you’re saying…

Context Collapse, Architecture, and Plows

Women and the Internet: Part Two

That Time I Was A Meme

“No one is born racist”