I did The Animorphs covers from scene descriptions that Scholastic sent, telling me what they wanted. For most of my other cover work, I would read the manuscript and have free rein deciding what to do. Scholastic wanted more control over these books, so I only read them after it was clear the…

Annals of Artificial Intelligence OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer? February 9, 2023 Illustration by Vivek Thakker In 2013, workers at a German construction company noticed something odd about their Xerox photocopier: when they made a copy of the…

In 1950, two researchers noticed something that didn’t quite add up. Hector Chevigny, a writer who had lost his sight in adulthood, and psychologist Sydell Braverman were studying the psychological lives of blind people when they stumbled upon an intriguing pattern: schizophrenia, a serious mental…

“Grogu is dead. Grogu remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean…

Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2026 Mar/Apr Details The genre is often used as a punchline, but sneering at ska discounts its long and uplifting history as “the people’s music.” filed in Music In a 2016 episode of the popular cop-themed comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, lead…

Two weeks ago, I quit my job. It wasn’t a bad job, not by most metrics. It ticked the boxes a job is supposed to tick: good pay. Health insurance. Remote work. Time off. Nice coworkers. I worked as our org’s only design engineer and maintainer of our design system. My job was to build components, to…