Kacey Mallow

What can Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat teach us about cultural evolution? In shopping malls of the 1970s, arcades were where people played digital games together, huddled around custom-built cabinets. These coin-operated arcade video games, designed for short, replayable sessions, enabled the public to interact with computers. As a social-technical phenomenon, arcade games were part of the origins of early computer-human interaction, long before smartphones or chatGPT.

On the puzzling geography of blowguns You may be familiar with the blowgun, which appears as a five-minute DIY, life-saving weapon in some popular movies and series (e.g., Apocalypto, McGyver, Love and Bullets). In real life it takes much longer to make such an artifact, nowadays it is also a sport and can be used for remote drug delivery for animals at zoos.

Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is? Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public. Why can’t scientists convince people that race isn’t biological?