The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.