Nuclear
Matthew L.Wald, “Betting on the Need, Scientists Work on Lighter, Cleaner Nuclear Energy.”
US National and International
Patrick L. Smith, “We Are Fucking Sadists: We Are Not Decent, and We Are Not a Democracy.”
Moisés Naím, “The Cuba Deal: Why Now?”
Dan Froomkin, “Billion Dollar Surveillance Blimp to Launch over Maryland.”
Hyperarchival
David Golumbia, “Tor Is Not a ‘Fundamental Law of the Universe.'”
Alexander R. Galloway, “The Reticular Fallacy.”
Literature and Culture
Eileen Jones, “Thinking Serious Thoughts.”
Adrian Hong, “North Korea: Not Funny.”
Matthew Buckley Smith, “Why Poems Don’t Make Sense.”
Jason Bailey, “How the Death of Mid-Budget Cinema Left a Generation of Iconic Filmmakers MIA.”
Willie Osterweil, “Weight Gains.”
The New York Review of Video Games.
Chris Suellentrop, “Game Theory: A Golden Era for Criticism.”
Ian Bogost, “Winning Isn’t Everything.”
Alexander R. Galloway, “Counter-gaming.”
Wesley Morris, “Beyond the Edge of Tomorrow: The Year the Blockbuster Was Busted.”
And the end of everything: tl;dr;lit is a “bot that takes works of literature and algorithmically summarizes them, a chapter at a time, to 1% of their original length.” I mean, finally!
Education
Michael Mau, “An Open Letter to America From a Public School Teacher.”
Reflections on 2014
The Hyperarchival Parallax 