“Vanitas Still Life” (17th century), Edwaert Collier This article is a preview from the Summer 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here . In our house, we make a joke about the phrase “It teaches us what it means to be human”. The trick is to spot this cliché in reviews…

Discussion Papers > Internet and Security > Proposition PROPOSITION Bruce Schneier, Cryptographer and Computer Security Specialist and Author of Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Thrive We’re in the middle of an epic battle for power in cyberspace. On one side are the nimble,…

The Apple Goes Mushy, Part I: OS X’s Interface Decline (Introduction) July 20, 2016 A Preliminary Note ... As of the time I write this article, OS X El Capitan remains the current public release version of what Apple has since christened macOS , so all that follows pertains only to El Capitan and…

Book Piracy as Peer Preservation Abstract In describing the people, books, and technologies behind one of the largest “shadow” libraries in the world, we find a tension between the dynamics of sharing and preservation. The paper proceeds to contextualize contemporary book piracy historically,…