Lecturer of Rhetoric and freelance science writer, Boston University
Joelle has a wide breadth of experience writing, teaching, and speaking about robots and AI. She writes science/tech pieces for the Daily Beast, Slate, Undark, Aeon, New Scientist, and others, and she maintains an award-winning blog, Could This Happen, about the relationship between science and science fiction. She teaches writing and research with a focus on science fiction, space, and robots/AI at Boston University.
Is secondhand screen time the new secondhand smoking?
Jan 23, 2020 11:00 am UTC| Health
The Environmental Protection Agency first warned of secondhand smoke in 1991, some 30 years after scientists determined that smoking cigarettes causes cancer. Today, a growing body of research points toward a new indirect...
Robots star in ads, but mislead viewers about technology
Feb 26, 2019 15:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Nowhere is the advance of technology more evident than in the rise of robots and artificial intelligence. From smart devices to self-checkout lanes to Netflix recommendations, robots (the hardware) and AI (the software)...
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