March 22, 2005
Notes & Briefs
The incipient space tourism industry has seen a breathtaking flurry of activity in the wake of last October’s X...
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March 22, 2005
The Embryo Wars
Slowly and quietly, the momentum of the public debate over human embryo research may be shifting. For the past four...
March 22, 2005
DNA Dragnets
In his January State of the Union Address, President Bush called for an expansion of the federal government’s...
March 22, 2005
Blogs Gone Bad
There is no denying that blogs — the “web logs” that now supply so much information, gossip, humor,...
March 22, 2005
Crimson Recriminations
Harvard University president Lawrence Summers began his now-infamous talk at the National Bureau of Economic Research...
March 22, 2005
‘A Profound Loss as a Culture’
On March 3, 2005, Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig lectured on the digital copyright debate at the Library...
December 15, 2004
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
In October, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the VeriChip in humans. VeriChip is a microchip, the...
December 15, 2004
Black Box Ballyhoo
As the 2004 elections approached, some voters still had nightmarish visions of hanging chads dancing in their heads. In...
December 15, 2004
Gray Matter in the Courtroom
This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Roper v. Simmons, a capital murder case from Missouri. In 1993,...
December 15, 2004
Debunking the Digital Classroom
Who could argue with a report that is dedicated to the memories of the children’s television personality Mr....