Jason Kehe

On today's episode of “Uncanny Valley,” our hosts talk to features editor Jason Kehe about everything from screen time limits and the return to flip phones to the romanticization of the early internet.

“RISC architecture is gonna change everything.” Those absurdly geeky, incredibly prophetic words were spoken 30 years ago. Today, they’re somehow truer than ever.

Tech critics are more sophisticated than ever. They’re still wrong.

Full! With that mocking little exclamation point. I do not panic. Instead what happens is: I simply go insane. Part of me stays there with Sloan, chatting about sci-fi. The rest of me is, I don’t know how else to put this, yanked, as if by some cosmic cartoon cane, offstage, into the other-dimensional wings of reality, where time is irrelevant and space sort of fizzles. In that realm, I know my task: to come up with a way to write this profile, or perish. It’s fine, I say to myself. Everything i…

God help the babies! Or, absent God, a fertility startup called Orchid. It offers prospective parents a fantastical choice: Have a regular baby or have an Orchid baby. A regular baby might grow up and get cancer. Or be born with a severe intellectual disability. Or go blind. Or become obese. A regular baby might not even make it to childbirth. Any of those things could still happen to an Orchid baby, yes, but the risk, says 29-year-old Noor Siddiqui, plummets if you choose her method. It’s often…

He’s the biggest fantasy writer in the world. He’s also very Mormon. These things are profoundly related.

The First—and Last—Time We Rank the Star Wars Movies

The only people who absolutely disagree are, well, scientists. They need to get over themselves and join the fun.

This year’s Oscar nominees for best animated feature are safe and childish. But The Willoughbys—not nominated—will mess you up.

You’ve never heard of him, but your favorite writers have, and his mad-drunk prose will knock you sideways.