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

Annalee Newitz Quotes

American - Journalist Born: 1969

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

Change, Big, Over

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

Immigration, Form, Though

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

Inequality, Fundamentally

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

Willpower, Psychological

There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone. Annalee Newitz

Younger Generations

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, Access, Japan

'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

Which, Continent, Wiped

'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest. Annalee Newitz

Big, Shelley, Arrested

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

Deal, Planet, Atmosphere

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

Truth, Hit, Ultimate

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

Fifty, Past Mistakes, Rather

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

Next, Prosper, Centuries

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

New, Seeing, Gilded

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

Book, Berkeley, Wrote

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

Will, Incredible, Stories

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, Evidence, Mass

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

Deal, Other, Oranges

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, About, Great Leader

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

Year, About, Undeniable

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

Fiction, Show, Before

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

Been, Shut, Steep

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

Nothing, Idea, Format

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

Born, Bring, Thus

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, Sweeter

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, Atmosphere, Founded

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

Fiction, Maybe, About

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