“When I’m a passenger on a flight, you’ll never catch me taking off my shoes, walking barefoot, or casually putting my feet all over the walls and seats,” said Jay Robert, a former flight attendant ...

It sounds fictional, but the “science fiction science” or “sci-fi-sci” method is meant to predict the effects of real ...

“It made me think of all the things women hold, literally and metaphorically.” Yes, they hold cabbages, balloons, phones. But also: “The home and the family and the children and the food.