Category: wtf?!

Editor’s Note

Mind blownThe girl with kaleidoscope eyes
Interview

The Wonderful Wizard of MinecraftDigital noodler Adam Clarke builds a better world – one block at a time
Interview

Free your mind from gravityThe exciting future of art in space
Interview

How to design better using scienceMeet the creators of the world’s first autonomous plant
Interview

Season food with your mind!Recipes for the brain with a sensory food designer
Short Story

A Trip to Space in StyleMarvel comic writer Ryan North takes us to the cosmos
Guest Post

Avoiding hype and binary AI mindsetsAI is all the rage right now – and there’s an unspoken reason for that
Interview

To infinity and beyondUniversal Everything embraces technology to generate endless joy
Guest Post

Desire Is Our Superpower. Use It!First we fancy Brian Eno – then we save the world
Interview

Erik Harley does mind the bollocksSpain’s urban avenger exposes architectural dick-waving
Short Story

Kármán NomadsWhen living in outer space becomes a reality
List

Weird fishesThese fish are cooler than you
Book Extract

Dougald Hine – At Work in the RuinsA deep, dark reflection on humanity’s destructive path
Feature

Deep troubleIs deep sea mining inevitable?
Feature

Ova before ya know itOcto-life – from egg to enigma to end
Interview

Cool ideas for a hot planetInside the nonprofit that turned festival activism into an art form
List

“All birds are gay!”Paris Nicholson’s top five hottest birds in the sky
Interview

Wing and a prayerTim Flach’s rare and endangered bird portraits are punk AF
Interview

Hedonism with heartWake the Tiger at the world’s first ‘Amazement Park’
Interview

Spawning a different planetJapanese photographer Tony Wu celebrates the ocean’s remarkable ‘alien’ creatures
Guest Post

Have we created an AI monster?The great AI debate
Feature

Let’s talk about death, babyMeet the people reducing the stigma around dying
Quick Read

Dovemania!Meet the Spanish artist who really, really loves doves
List

8 reasons to go to Sónar Festival 2023Get a glimpse of the future of AI in Barcelona
Book Extract

The Internet of Living ThingsMicrobes have their own version of the Internet
Interview

Everything Will ChangeCan this dystopian road movie from the future save us?
Feature

The sex robots are comingAnd so are we
Short Story

NutriOrbsSavour the flavour of the future
Video

‘The Real Ross’ – Steve BrusatteSimone Angel meets Jurassic Park’s dinosaur consultant
Quick Read

Welcome to the jungleA bestiary of birds who mean business
List

21 cosmic websites you need to knowHow big is space? Sci-fi legend David Brin investigates
Editor’s Note

Gift it forward to spread love, actuallyTOPIA’s Jolly Good Gift Guide 2022
Interview

“Well-behaved women rarely make history“Enter the punk mind and mosaic house of artist-provocateur Carrie Reichardt
Interview

Meet the intrudersExclusive joint interview with standup comic Atsuko Okatsuka and husband Ryan Harper Gray
Long Read

An interview with Michael EnrightThe Hollywood actor who fought ISIS in Syria is finally going home
Feature

The growing pains of The Very Hungry CaterpillarWhy this children’s classic is actually the purest coming of age story
Interview

The stinger swindlerVicki Hird on why the hoverfly is the greatest superbug
Interview

The dragon with a jet engine bumJessica Ware on why the dragonfly is the greatest superbug
List

The worst album art in the world!12 dreadful record covers cracking life’s mystery to reenact at Christmas
Interview

Lauren Martin gives us lifeNYC illustrator creates a joyful cosmos by animating the mundane
Quick Read

Wonderland DreamsArtist Alexa Meade blurs the lines of art and reality in New York
Quick Read

Virgins are doing it for themselvesThe endangered bird thinking positive to give birth
Feature

Girls can’t surf?!Meet the badass women who fought sexism and homophobia in surfing
Interview

Eggs on the edgeSaving the world’s weirdest parrot and a newt the size of a man
Conversation

Diving after your dreamsNelly Ben Hayoun meets Jill Heinerth – the fearless aquanaut who dives through icebergs
Quiz

Custard, clitorises and golden geeseIt’s the Wonderful World of Eggs Quiz!
Podcast

Eat me! A spider’s guide to foreplayTOPIA Season 02 podcast – The Futurenauts eat the patriarchy with Bitch author Lucy Cooke
Guest Post

Cracking life’s mysteryBobby Palmer on solving the mystery of the Egg
Editor’s Note

Introducing TOPIA Season 02 – The EggCracking life’s mysteries with Lisa Goldapple
Conversation

“This compass doesn’t look right to me!”Philippe Rouja and Nelly Ben Hayoun dive into the Bermuda Triangle
Feature

If it’s broke, fix itTaking mending to the street doctors
Interview

In Hearts WakeThe imperfect pursuit of a climate positive album
List

Amy Westervelt makes the best climate podcasts in the worldHere’s what she’s listening to
Short Story

The Wibbly Wobbly BirdA heartwarming tale about a bird that can’t fly
Interview

I Scream ColourQ&A with Humberto Cruz – the digital doodler brightening our reality
Interview

Make it fun!Q&A with artist Yeye Weller – creator of colourful happy things
Feature

Animal heroesAnimals do the most outrageously good things
Interview

“Kafka knew what buttons he was pushing”What will be the last creature on Earth? A cockroach expert answers.
Interview

“Naked mole-rats are like the Rolling Stones”What will be the last creature on Earth? An evolution expert answers.
Interview

“Water bears are mini-astronauts”What will be the last creature on Earth? A tardigrade expert answers.
Guest Post

Can sci-fi save the world?David Brin on George Orwell and the self-preventing prophecy
Editor’s Note

WANTED! Social media ninjaJoin the TOPIA Team
Guest Post

Volcanoes are cooler than youThey do more than look good – they change the world
Guest Post

Homo Dodo – A suitable case for extinctionJohn Elkington’s Adventures in Wonderland
Feature

Introducing Space FeminismsBringing a new perspective to the space industry
Personal Essay

Consolations of philosophyHow a forgotten medieval philosophy can help if you lose your job
Feature

Art, the Universe and EverythingA mind-bending trip with the artists probing the Big Bang
Quick Read

Good news! Our planets are safeThe solar system is stable for at least 100,000 years
List

5 radical books to reframe your perspectiveYour summer reading list – brought to you by What Design Can Do
Personal Essay

Snake pits and rabbit holesLife with Alice In Wonderland syndrome, firsthand…
Interview

Meet the nü waste warriorsDouglas McMaster’s Justice League gives upcycling a twist
Interview

Obviously extinctAll hail these awesome doomed creatures by artist Bill Carman
List

TikTok O’Clock14 creators creating real change
Interview

The revolution will be CrystalisedDrag Race UK’s Crystal designs their utopia
Short Story

A Pilgrimage of DonkeysA creation story
Quick Read

UncompressedMeet the world’s first synth-nerd supergroup
Interview

The real Top GunMeet the real-life ‘Charlie’ – a true Maverick
List

Mods, punks and YugostalgiaSearching for the Golden Age of a lost utopia
Feature

How to hack a bus stopBrandalism fights corporate crimes with spoof ads
Interview

How to disappearMeet Birmingham’s invisible woman
Conversation

Nelly Ben Hayoun meets the real Iron ManUnlocking our sixth sense with brain magnets
Interview

Putting the perfume in planetary scienceWhy the Milky Way tastes like raspberries
List

And then there was sound14 iconic album covers influenced by the Big Bang
Guest Post

The real Sons of AnarchyA Good City Guide to Tijuana through its outlaw history – and dives
Feature

How to avoid being hit by lightningScience, radio and myths collide in Zimbabwe
Personal Essay

Play NiceMy foolhardy attempt to become Scrabble World Champion – in Spanish
Interview

Dispatches from an outsiderRichard Grant on America’s weird
List

7 best books for a Big BangNoodles, marbles and Brian May
List

17 wondrous website time machinesFall down the rabbit hole to find retro treasure
Guest Post

The dove that rocksHow the humble street pigeon became one of nature’s greatest success stories
Feature

“You literally piss on your robot”Recycling ourselves to cheat death
Feature

“I have no desire to become a hat”I am beaver: if nature’s furry engineers could talk
Conversation

Teaching birds to fly – using puppetsTOPIA meets Kris Tompkins: the wilderness conservationist reversing extinction
Quiz

The Big Bang QuizAstrophysics, macaws & Shakespeare
Interview

Scott Riley’s Ruins of Civilization“The animals started helping each other and things got biblical”
Editor’s Note

Introducing TOPIA S01 – The Big BangAre you ready for this cosmic jelly?
Poetry

Bangers, bears & tentacles!Three mind-bending poems from the point of view of an atom, nautilus and tardigrade
Interview

“Crabs will inherit the Earth”How can we see space differently? Astronomer Dr Tana Joseph answers
Interview

Sciencing the “Bazinga!” out of The Big Bang TheoryBehind the scenes: what it’s like to fact-check Sheldon Cooper
Short Story

The Old Heads of Elder Grove learn about air pollutionA short story by Zakiya Mckenzie
Interview

The art of occupying KrasnodarThe Russian art rebels making us look again
Conversation

Space rocksTOPIA meets the stardust expert who eyeballs fireballs to hunt for water

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