At the Intersections

Recent Issues

• July 18, 2026: Welcome to At the Intersections. This week, we consider the signals our bodies and technologies send. From the electrical rhythms of a critically ill child’s brain to the chemical composition within t
• July 11, 2026: Welcome to At the Intersections. This week, we consider the connections between the tools we use and the actions we take. We begin with the relationship between technology and human activity, touching
• July 04, 2026: Welcome to At the Intersections. This week's issue explores the boundaries of systems, from the environmental conditions that constrain professional training to the neural coordination between collabo
• June 27, 2026: This week, we examine health and biology across different scales. We look at organizational barriers that can prevent the delivery of equitable care and the factors that influence medication use among
• June 20, 2026: This week, At the Intersections considers systems of meaning and care, from the language applied to public health measures to the evaluation of educational technologies. We turn to health outcomes for
• June 13, 2026: Welcome to At the Intersections. This week, we examine the use of modeling to understand connections between our environment, actions, and well-being. We feature work that projects the financial outco
• June 06, 2026: Welcome to At the Intersections. This week’s issue considers the frameworks we construct to make sense of complex phenomena. We begin with mathematical models that expose the underlying mechanics of s
• May 30, 2026: Welcome to At the Intersections. This week’s edition follows the path of signals, both clear and complex. We explore the modeling of price movements in financial and carbon markets and the development
• May 23, 2026: Welcome to At the Intersections. This week, we examine the space between perception and interpretation. We begin at the level of cognitive processing in rhythm and time, before moving into contexts wh
• May 16, 2026: Welcome to At the Intersections. This week, we examine the signals that reveal the state of a system, from the patterns in human speech that relate to clinical conditions to the issuance of green bond
• May 09, 2026: Welcome to At the Intersections. This week, we examine how analytical methods are applied to systems that shape daily life, from forecasting housing prices to reorganizing hospital logistics. The issu
• May 02, 2026: This issue looks at the boundaries of perception and measurement. We consider how the brain responds to what it can and cannot hear, how it synchronizes with musical rhythm, and how personal history a
• April 25, 2026: Welcome to At the Intersections. This week, we begin with the search for new paths forward when established treatments are not sufficient, considering posttraumatic stress disorder through the lenses