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But we need penguins. Nobody would want to go to Antarctica and not see penguins!

The big idea: a hotel in Antarctica. Why not?

Have you considered using ice as not the only, but as one of your hotel’s building materials?

Getting through the valley of death is the hard part. Yes, we do need bold ideas– but how do we turn them into iron realities?

Foursquare Data Scientist Michael Li talks probabilities, integers and Bayesian Smoothing.

Neal Stephenson and Cory Doctorow discuss the possibilities for moon dust.

A student research project about a method for sorting lunar regolith by size, produced at the University of Washington as part of NASA’s Microgravity University program and overseen by James J. Riley, professor of mechanical engineering.

Jean M. Andino, one of the co-authors of this article, consulted with Charlie Jane Anders on “The Day It All Ended.” Andino is a Senior Sustainability Scholar at Arizona State University’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, and an Associate Professor at the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy.

Read an excerpt of “By the Time We Get To Arizona” by Madeline Ashby.