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American - Journalist Born: 1969

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

Technology, Best, Become, Surveillance

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

Capitalism, Inequality, Economic, System

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

Change, Time, Character, I Am, People

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

Past, Dating, Questions, Behavior, Early

'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

America, American, White, Crime, Act

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

Engineering, Health, Natural Disasters

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, Animals, Lose

In the 1920s and 30s, when Radio Shack was young, a much earlier generation of nerds swarmed into these tiny shops to talk excitedly about building radios and other transmission devices. You might say that Radio Shack helped define gadget culture for four generations, from radio whizzes up to smartphone dorks. Annalee Newitz

Culture, Building, Generation, Radio, Up

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

Gentrification is a form of immigration, though almost nobody calls it that. Annalee Newitz

Immigration, Nobody, Form, Though, Calls

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, Far, Years, Been

Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic. Annalee Newitz

History, Future, Past, Mistakes, Learn

Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter. Annalee Newitz

Hope, Perspective, Fall, Rise, Kind

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

Die, Know, You, Evidence, Over, Happen

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

Great, Up, Planet, Atmosphere, Deal

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, White, Old

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, Race, Fantasy

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, World, Universe, Promises, Show

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

Today, Culture, People, Internet, Know

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

Amazing, People, World, Late, Born, Web

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, Last, First, Horrible, Web, 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

Journey, Home, Space, Bubble, Back

You've probably heard the stories about how io9 got its name. And maybe you know that io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders and I were inspired by Kathy Keeton, whose groundbreaking magazine 'Omni' combined coverage of real science with science fiction. But what you probably don't know is how unlikely it was that io9 ever succeeded at all. Annalee Newitz

Science, Name, Know, You, Real, Inspired

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

Time, Famous, Media, Born, Company, Last

You are ruled by change whether you like it or not, and io9's future path lies with joining a larger site that covers technology as well as science and science fiction. Annalee Newitz

Change, Technology, Science, Future, You

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters. Annalee Newitz

Book, Monsters, Wrote, About, Berkeley

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