Technology
How to Get Rid of All Your Stuff
Two local nonprofits launched resourcePhilly, a “zero waste” search engine to help people donate or recycle their trash … just when we’re all thinking about what we throw away.
By Courtney DuChene
Science Matters
A scientist-in-training helped coordinate a letter-writing campaign to protect federal science funding. Here’s what the Philly-born scientist says is at stake for the town she loves
By Isako Di Tomassi
Why Can’t Philly Be More Like … Hong Kong?
A recent visit to the global center for commerce showed a visitor how public transit, electric cars and clean streets are all part of an abundance mindset Philadelphians deserve
By Nicolas Esposito
About that Missing $700,000 …
For the second time in three years, the School District of Philadelphia was defrauded out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. What’s really going on?
By Jessica Blatt Press
Can Drones and License Plate Readers Make Cities Safer?
Flock Safety’s Garrett Langley on how his surveillance tech solves and prevents crime
By J.P. Romney
Can Philly Still Become “Cellicon Valley?”
Layoffs, vacant labs and NIH cuts are diminishing the once-booming biotech sector. But there is still promise for the region
By Malcolm Burnley
Ali Velshi — Do We Now Live in a Surveillance State?
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member talks with Caitlin Dickerson and Petra Molnar about the growing surveillance state and how big-donor tech companies are threatening due process
By Ali Velshi
You’ve Got a Blackout in PA
AI is taxing Pennsylvania’s power grid, risking even higher rates for residents, who already pay more for electricity than neighboring states
By Athan Koutsiouroumbas
It’s Not You. It’s Me
Philly-based science journalist Catherine Price reframes our phone habits as a relationship rather than a moral failing, creating space for honest reflection in an otherwise charged conversation
By David Williams
What a Typewriter Taught Me about Human Connection
A local artist has traveled America inviting people to write letters to the President on her vintage typewriter. See her March 8 at the Free Library for the Global Day of Unplugging
By Sheryl Oring