Culture

How the internet changed news, according to The Onion
Freethink spoke to Onion staffers about parodying news from the print era into the digital age.
Animation may be entering a new renaissance. Here’s why.
Popular animated films have been rendered in an increasingly realistic style recently. Here’s where animation is heading in the future.
From besting Tetris AI to epic speedruns – inside gaming’s most thrilling feats
Gaming embraces design elements that promote social connection, creativity, a sense of autonomy – and, ultimately, the sheer joy of mastery.
The evolution of a dissident: How Ladar Levison became someone who said "no" to the FBI
This week in ideas: Good things that happened in 2016
Leslie Dewan on learning from failure
What we need right now is a little bit of Hans Rosling
Why the U.S. government treated satellites and machine guns as the same for 15 years
The fake disease that saved Rome's Jews