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Data is a valuable, powerful commodity — but unlike oil, it is unlimited in quantity and in its capacity for harm, says technology thinker James Bridle.

Neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris describes a scenario that is both terrifying and likely to occur. It’s not, he says, a good combination.

Anne Curzan shows how new words like “hangry” or “adorkable” get sealed in dictionaries. Some might lament these types of words as the death of a language, but Curzan says they reveal that a language is living, breathing, and growing.

英国出生的摄影师罗伯特·莱斯利驾车穿越美国南部与西南部，累计行程一万英里。他用镜头记录下废弃的停车场、被法拍的房屋与残破的广告牌，呈现的并非繁荣的机遇之地，而是一片在风暴蹂躏后走向衰败的土地，折射出美国梦背后深深的幻灭与矛盾。

TED舞台上曾多次出现飞行汽车的身影。从2004年保罗·莫勒的垂直起降”天空汽车”，到2011年的”转型者”，这些令人脑洞大开的未来交通工具至今仍停留在概念阶段。文章回顾了这些差点成真、也可能永远无法实现的飞行汽车科技演示，探讨飞行汽车的梦想究竟离现实还有多远。

Déjà vu — we all know it when we feel it, but could we make it happen in someone else? Psychology researcher Anne Cleary figured out a way.

When artist JR started a project about the 1.2 million people held in limbo at the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital in the early 20th century, he couldn’t help but notice ghosts of the present.

On a typical sunny day in the Amazon, 20 billion metric tons of water pass through the trees and into the air. This is more than just a feat of Nature — it’s at the heart of South America’s economy, as researcher Antonio Donato Nobre explains.

Photographer Felipe Luna goes on a tour of Mexico City with culture curator Gabrielle Gomez-Mont.

How Emily McManus checked out a few genealogy websites, and discovered a whole new family. Kind of.