Culture

Alternative funeral options are changing how we honor our dead
A small, yet growing number of people are starting to choose funeral options outside traditional burial or cremation.
Science fiction books that predicted the future with terrifying accuracy
Science fiction writers have anticipated a variety of modern inventions, from cars to organ transplants. Some books barely seem like fiction.
The most undervalued problem-solving tool? Lateral thinking.
Lateral thinking is a way of approaching problems. It deliberately forgoes obvious approaches in favor of oblique or unexpected ones.
Politics on social media is a good thing
The evolution of a dissident: How Ladar Levison became someone who said "no" to the FBI
This week in ideas: Good things that happened in 2016
Leslie Dewan on learning from failure
What we need right now is a little bit of Hans Rosling
Why the U.S. government treated satellites and machine guns as the same for 15 years
The fake disease that saved Rome's Jews