Polyamory. If you’ve been paying any attention lately, you’ve probably heard the term. TV shows, books, magazines, and social media are abuzz with what appears to be widescale experimentation in consensual non-monogamy. But what does it mean? Where did the idea come from? How is it different than swinging, friends-with-benefits, having a side piece, or any of the other possible sexual arrangements? Christopher Gleason, author of American Poly: A History, explains.

E. coli. Listeria. Salmonella. When you turn on the news, it's hard not to hear about some tragic outbreak caused by lettuce, or beef, or something unknown. Why do outbreaks occur with such regularity? Is a failure of big government? Or is it big business putting profits above its customers? Or is it a regulatory state that is underfunded and overtasked? Timothy Lytton, Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State University, gives us some answers.

When we think about AI, many of us have in mind HAL 9000 from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.  But AI is here and it is not quite like the movies. So what does AI look like today?  How it reshaping contemporary society and government?  Whose interests does it serve and, for those pessimistic about its influence, is there anything that can be done to ameliorate its negative effects?  Tim Hwang, the Director of the Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative at Harvard and MIT works through the possibilities.