March 21, 2006
The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology
On regulating designer microbes
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March 21, 2006
The Mislabeled Child
When we first began treating children with learning and behavioral difficulties, we were struck by a paradox: although...
March 21, 2006
The Many Casualties of Cloning
The details of the cloning scandal in South Korea are by now familiar. Dr. Hwang Woo Suk and his colleagues, the only...
January 4, 2006
The Age of Neuroelectronics
Adam Keiper on neural implants, brain-machine interfaces, and cyborg fantasies
January 4, 2006
The Trouble with the Turing Test
Why the Turing Test hasn't been passed yet—and why it's a bad measure of intelligence anyway
January 4, 2006
The Rhetoric of Extinction
Viewing humanity as inadequate, transhumanists have given up on it.
January 4, 2006
Are We Worthy of Our Kitchens?
One of the best recent advertising campaigns is for a new line of high-end washers and dryers made by General Electric....
January 4, 2006
Who Owns the Genome?
Like other ambitious public endeavors, the Human Genome Project was prone to the occasional spectacle. On June 26,...
January 4, 2006
The Rise of Guerrilla Media
Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an...
September 21, 2005
Conservatives, Liberals, and Medical Progress
Whether one wants to call it a problem, a plague, or a pending crisis, it is clear that healthcare systems throughout...