Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz is a writer who covers the social impact of technology and science. She contributes to Wired, Popular Science, and New Scientist, and writes the syndicated column Techsploitation. She is co-editor of the book She’s Such a Geek, a former policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and currently president of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
Blog Posts
Melon Evolution Reveals the Future of Human Sex [Evolution]
--Melons have recently evolved a strange new sexual feature: When they bloom, their flowers are both male and bisexual. Their sexual system is calle...
Worst Robot Penis Joke In History [Found Footage]
--Supposedly when Wall-E was already in production, the Pixar team found out that Blue Sky Studios was putting out an animated robot movie called Rob...
Why Does My City Scream? [Urban Decay]
--Just as Americans are going to the polls in November, a mass media campaign will be ramping up that depicts cities as both dangerous and wracked wi...
Another Season Of Lost, Another Batch Of Shady Characters [Lost]
--After the exodus and explosions at end of Lost season four, you may have worried the mysterious island would be emptied out. But don't worry — ever...
Tor Puts New Story Online To Read, Remix [Creative Commons Fiction]
--Tor.com continued their amazing series of original stories yesterday with a new novella by Little Brother's Cory Doctorow, entitled The Things that...
Which Skull Stomping Terminator Future Is Your Favorite? [Poll]
--The time line for Terminator 4 plops John Connor in the year of 2018, in between Judgment Day and the eventual triumph of the human race in 2029. W...
Contact Lenses of the Future Will Treat Your Eye Diseases [Glaucoma]
--The World Health Organization estimates that glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. And though the first leading cause of bli...
James Cameron Is Making Gadget-Heavy Avatar With One Eye On Future [Avatar]
--In 10 or 15 years, your laptop may come with a 3-D stereoscopic screen as a standard feature, predicts James Cameron, who's directing the 3-D scien...
Outrageous Acts of Gendercide [Apocalypse]
--If you're one of the many people who howled in pain upon reading the recently-released final trade of comic book Y the Last Man, then gendercide i...
Are Russian Flying Saucers the Next Big Thing in Aviation? [Retro Futurism]
--Imagine how the U.S. government would have reacted during the Cold War had they discovered the USSR was developing a flying saucer. The EKIP (“Ecol...
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Love your BSG posts -- from one female BSG fan to another!
