November 20, 2019
The New Kinship Engineering
Three-parent babies are being created not to prevent disease but to manufacture genetic relationships.
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November 13, 2019
First, Take No Stand
On assisted suicide, the medical profession ducks behind “neutrality.”
November 6, 2019
Crusoe at the Crossroads
On ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ ‘Lost,’ and why we keep returning to mysterious islands where science blurs with the...
August 20, 2019
Our Uneasy Tranquility
American use of anti-anxiety pills has skyrocketed. Should we be worried?
August 20, 2019
Why Science Can’t Break the GMO Stalemate
The debate won’t be settled technocratically because it’s about technocracy itself.
August 20, 2019
Can Chess Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Computers are taking the error out of human chess — and the adventure.
July 24, 2019
After Technopoly
Technocratic solutionism is dying. To replace it, we must learn again the creation and reception of myth.
July 16, 2019
NASA’s Next 50 Years
A half-century after Apollo, the agency risks irrelevance. It’s time for a real — and different — mission.
June 3, 2019
In Search of Lost Time on YouTube
Laurence Scott on how the platform takes us to places where we ache to go again
May 7, 2019
The Inescapable Town Square
Social media is a throwback, combining the worst of prior eras of communication.