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New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose says we've been approaching automation all wrong. "We should be teaching people ... to be more like humans, to do the things that machines can't do," he says.

Clive Wilkinson says it's really not a good thing for employees to work at a place that has catered meals, private parks, massage tables and a laundromat ... because why would you ever leave?

Author Xochitl Gonzalez examines the role of race and class in society's preference for quiet in her essay in The Atlantic, "Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?" She discusses it with NPR's Michel Martin.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with political scientist Cas Mudde about Sweden's and Italy's electoral results.

For the class of 2023, every year of high school was disrupted by the pandemic. NPR talked to five seniors about what that's been like.

A light rail station in a San Francisco suburb had a nasty problem: pigeon poop. The solution: A trained hawk scares the pigeons away. Commuters now treat the hawk and his handler like celebrities.

Yi-Kai Tea recently returned from a 35-day expedition to explore the deep seas surrounding a new marine park in the Indian Ocean. They gathered thousands of specimens.

A new PBS miniseries explores the many effects the human species is having on the planet. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with its host, biologist and Princeton University professor Shane Campbell-Staton.

The Devils Hole pupfish's natural habitat is a single water-filled hole in a cave in the Nevada desert. Its numbers at one point dwindled to just 35 animals. How does it manage to survive?

Franchises like Final Fantasy are moving on from old-school mechanics and aesthetics, but indie developers are taking up the retro RPG mantle.