“ We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest. Annalee Newitz
“ 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 bein… Annalee Newitz
“ 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 di… Annalee Newitz
“ As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back d… Annalee Newitz
“ 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,… Annalee Newitz
“ 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… Annalee Newitz
“ When James Garner called Howard Stern the epitome of trailer trash, Stern responded, in his typically scatological fashion, I can’t believe this guy wants a war with me. He should be busy worrying if… Annalee Newitz
“ We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies. Annalee Newitz
“ Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood compu… Annalee Newitz
“ As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me:You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond that of some people's means. This can be because food is short, objectively. This can… Annalee Newitz
“ How many times had Paladin looked into this human face, its features animated by neurological impulse alone? He did not know. Even if he were to sort through his video memories and count them up one b… Annalee Newitz
“ Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic? Annalee Newitz