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Experience is an award-winning magazine that tells stories about the intersection of technology and humanity — stories that look to the future; chronicle innovations in work, play, and human relationships; and examine solutions to global problems.

Experience is published by Northeastern University.

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About Northeastern

For more than a century, Northeastern University has placed experience at the heart of its mission in teaching, research, and global engagement — because experience is education. Learn more about Northeastern.

Staff

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Joanna Weiss @JoannaWeiss

DESIGN DIRECTOR
Michael Workman @MichaelWorkman

SENIOR EDITOR
Schuyler Velasco @Schuyler_V

ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Erick Trickey @ErickTrickey

EDITOR, PARTNERSHIPS AND ENGAGEMENT
Ceci Menchetti @CeciMenchetti

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Culture

Cats helped build the internet. Now, the web is giving back.

“Mouse for Cats” gaming apps, ASMR, and YouTube videos of birds are looking for an audience that may or may not care.

By Eoin O'Carroll

What can tiny living robots do for you?

By Stav Dimitropoulos

Riding the big wave with an inflatable safety vest

By Kade Krichko

Stories in Culture

The key to a kinder, gentler internet? Capybaras.

The internet’s most useless website is a well of deep wisdom

Run or pass? In this football league, the fans decide.

Robot dancers could hold us closer

One simple question? There’s a website for that — and only that

My pandemic pup was anxious. Tech helped me track him — and myself.

Stories in Humans+Robots

He spent months underwater. Now he wants to save the ocean.

By Erick Trickey

How was the workout? Let me ask my smart socks.

By Matt Crossman

I failed to trick the adbots. Here’s what I learned.

By Glenn McDonald

You’re a poet. AI knows it.

By Tony Rehagen

AI can create a voice. It’s up to humans to use it responsibly.

To be trusted by humans, robots need to read the room

By Eoin O’Carroll

Outside

Cities+Nature

Did a legendary trout really ride the rails from California to Missouri?

Scientists use DNA to solve genetic puzzles in waters around the world. But in Crane Creek, the mystery got deeper.

By Matt Crossman

Online, Black gardeners are celebrating the act of working their own land

By A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez

The best way to understand Switzerland? Ride a cow.

By Veronique Greenwood

Inside

Culture

When modern life gets tough, I take refuge in history podcasts

The astonishing medicinal powers of obscure facts, obsessive professors, and droning BBC historians.

By Glenn McDonald

On Netflix and Spotify, algorithms hold the power. But there’s a way to get it back.

By Glenn McDonald

Garden hotels. Forest restaurants. Plants are the future of interior design.

By Alix Strauss

Try a Quiz

Humans+Robots

Your brain vs. artificial intelligence

To understand how AI works, you have to understand human cognition, and recognize the processes we take for granted.

Can you tell the difference between modern and medieval health myths? Take this quiz.

Is your dating app spying on you? Take this quiz.
Society

What would you do? Take an immigrant’s journey.

Here are eight immigrant stories, told through composite characters but based on real laws and historically documented scenarios. Follow their paths, and see how you would respond to the choices they faced.