Annalee Newitz Quotes

American - Journalist Born: 1969

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality. Annalee Newitz

Capitalism, Inequality, Economic, System

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance. Annalee Newitz

Technology, Best, Go, Become, Against

Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy. Annalee Newitz

Leader, Great, Wolves, Guilt, Alien, Old

A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hit. Annalee Newitz

Truth, Truth Is, Genuine, Report, Viral

Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years. Annalee Newitz

Forward, Evidence, Say, Students, Years

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time. Annalee Newitz

Change, Character, Time, I Am, People

When Usenet was eclipsed by websites in the late 1990s, people from that world - many of them programmers - wanted to bring the freewheeling, amazing discussions of Usenet to the web. And thus, RSS was born. Annalee Newitz

People, Amazing, World, Born, Late, Web

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

Education, Women, Growth, Children, More

If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops. Annalee Newitz

Great, Losing, Looking, Lose, Animals

Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends. Annalee Newitz

People, Friends, Newspaper, Because

Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground. Annalee Newitz

Health, Survive, Engineering, Plan, Will

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest. Annalee Newitz

Age, Seeing, New, Inheritance, Where

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

Technology, Smart, Tomorrow, You, Easy

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin. Annalee Newitz

People, American, Young, Never, Nest

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose. Annalee Newitz

Red, Action, Portrait, Never, Soldiers

I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving. Annalee Newitz

Think, True, Detective, Because, Made

It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world. Annalee Newitz

World, End, True, Will, End Of The World

There is evidence that we are headed into what would be the planet's sixth mass extinction. It's hard to know for sure if you're in one because a mass extinction is an event where over 75 percent of the species on the planet die out over a - usually about a million-year period. The fastest it might happen is in hundreds of thousands of years. Annalee Newitz

You, Die, Know, Evidence, Extinction

Humans have obviously contributed a great deal of carbon to the atmosphere. So we are warming the planet up. Annalee Newitz

Great, Up, Planet, Deal, Atmosphere

Whether 'Avatar' is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick 'District 9', released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race. Annalee Newitz

You, Down, Debate, Alien, Matter, Year

'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent. Annalee Newitz

American, America, Immigrants, White

Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before. Annalee Newitz

Science, Promises, Universe, World, Show

Reader was by far the most popular feed reader out there, and its user base had been in a steep decline for two years before Google decided to shut it down. Annalee Newitz

Down, Google, Two, Years, Feed, Out

RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet. Annalee Newitz

Culture, Today, People, Internet, Know

At last we've seen the first installment of Joss Whedon's new web series, 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog,' and it's sweeter than we'd ever imagined. Annalee Newitz

New, First, Last, Web, Horrible, Seen

I founded io9 back in 2008, and I watched it journey from the farthest reaches of space to its current home under this atmosphere bubble on Ceres. Annalee Newitz

Home, Journey, Space, Bubble, Back

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