A short look into strange, beautiful, and mostly failed historical attempts to farm spider silk

How to recruit agency from anxiety

Fiction, media, and public sentiment: influences on robot reception and communication strategies

Or, Aurora Plants a Seed

Personifying nature as wise undermines appreciation of rigorous human inquiry - we should instead celebrate applications of human agency to understanding the natural world

The false choice between human values and ecological understanding

Grounding biological creativity in humanistic philosophy instead of resignation to post-human naturalism or runaway biological accelerationism

If we can render biological dystopias, we can - and should - imagine wonderlands as well

Stakes in the ground for my future self: sources of inspiration and general principles for writing

Reflections on Edge City Austin: why isn't city life always like this?