By: Erik Davis

What does the cosmos sound like?

By: Peggy Nelson

An idea whose time has come.

By: Peggy Nelson

Earn the first HiLobrow merit badge: The Radium Age.

By: Peggy Nelson

The theremin is a perfect instrument: it plays all the notes. Not only those we discretely declare, but every tone in between. Such a surfeit anchors it firmly in the uncanny valley — too much […]

By: Matthew Battles

As readers of HiLobrow know, Joshua Glenn shows the same mastery over the history of science fiction that a mad scientist exerts over his army of murderous fembots. While Roxxxy the Robot’s makers might claim […]