As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago. - Annalee Newitz 1 Share Now -
Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation. - Annalee Newitz 2 Share Now -
A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth. - Annalee Newitz 3 Share Now -
We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies. - Annalee Newitz 4 Share Now -
We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies. - Annalee Newitz 5 Share Now -
We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies. - Annalee Newitz 6 Share Now -
When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did. - Annalee Newitz 7 Share Now -
Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers. - Annalee Newitz 8 Share Now -
io9 was the last standalone site that Gawker Media ever launched. It was born at a time when many of the company's other famous sites, from Consumerist and Wonkette to Fleshbot and Idolator, were being sold off or shuttered. - Annalee Newitz 9 Share Now -
Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door. - Annalee Newitz 10 Share Now -
