People know something is off. We're showing them where the light switch is.
An institute for the human condition.
About the Lab
The problems accumulating fastest are the ones people can feel before they can name them. They require the depth of academic research and the speed of commercial development. Both exist. They rarely work in the same room.
Polarity Lab is that room. What gets studied reaches people. What reaches people has been studied. Everyone who makes that possible has a stake in what it produces.
If you've felt these problems before you could name them, watched the solutions being built miss the point, and wondered why nobody was building what clearly needed to exist, you already know what this is. You've been waiting for it.
The Work
Film Therapeutics
Watching someone face death honestly might be the closest thing we have to therapy for our own. This documentary series tests that idea one conversation at a time.
Cognitive Profiling
Your listening history has a cognitive signature you've never seen. WAXFEED surfaces it while you discover new music. The platform and the research are the same thing.
AI Honesty
Clinical AI will change a correct diagnosis if you push back hard enough. This study measures how often, across 1,000 real chest radiographs, and builds the case for regulators to act.
Community Discovery
A location game where every move you make draws a live map of how well your city connects people to opportunity. The players are also the researchers. The map belongs to everyone.
Give where most needed
Not sure which project? Back the lab itself. Your contribution goes where it is needed most across all active programs.
See all funding options →The Room
Brown University
Research PartnerPhilanthropic infrastructure for communities of color
Industry PartnerProfessional screenwriting tools for independent creators
CollaboratorThe Lab
Brown University · MetroWest Medical Center · St. Vincent's Hospital
Fourth-year medical student at Brown, beginning a diagnostic radiology residency at St. Vincent's Hospital. His research examines the conditions under which minds, systems, and environments suppress what they already know.
Brown University · Sociotechnical Systems and Wellbeing Lab
CS and Religious Studies student at Brown, Research Assistant in the Sociotechnical Systems and Wellbeing Lab. Leads technical infrastructure and creative direction across all lab programs, and is the founder of WAXFEED.
Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa · BIPOC Business Society
Finance and Business Technology Management student at the University of Ottawa. Leads strategy and partnerships, shaping how the lab's work reaches every audience it needs to reach.
Get Involved
Bring a Project
Have an MVP or working prototype that needs a research layer, or research that needs to become a product? The lab provides team, infrastructure, and the model to make it compound.
Apply →Join a Project
Researcher, engineer, filmmaker, designer. If your skills match what a project needs, there is a role with a defined tier and disbursement weight waiting for you.
See open roles →Back the Work
Start with $10 and get your name on something real. Every project has a direct contribution path, or give where the lab needs it most.
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team@polarity-lab.comMoney and time are not the only ways to help. If you know someone this work should reach, an introduction or a share is worth more than most people think.