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Views from a Height: Technologies of Surveillance from the Photographic Survey to the Predator Drone
The tradition of landscape painting and the practice of drone surveillance are indissolubly linked.
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein
Irritated — A Historical Overview of Allergies
Are allergies getting worse?
Why We Need the Dead
What we do with dead bodies matters.
Is the Path to Racial Health Equity Paved with “Reparations”? The Politics of Health, Part II
The history of American racial health "disparities" between whites and blacks begins with some of the former forcing some of the latter onto slave ships.
Precision Psychiatry: Hype or Promise?
What if doctors could treat diseases based on the specific genes, enzymes, and biochemistry of a patient?
Removing Humans from the AI Loop — Should We Panic?
Is AI a threat to humankind?
The Lawlessness of Medicine
Mukherjee's laws of medicine are laws of uncertainty, imprecision, and incompleteness.
A Peculiar Oceanography
In "The Island of Knowledge," Marcelo Gleiser wants to forge a third way between scientism and obscurantism.
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, Doctor: On Epigenetics, Placebos, and “The Lost Art of Healing”
We are firmly planted in the genetics era of medicine. Yet many doctors have underestimated the role of epigenetics.
Nostalgia for the Lost Subject of Technology in the Work of Casey Reas
Johanna Drucker on the nostalgia generated by our machines.
Imagination Battles: What Will the Future Look Like?
"Speculations (The Future Is ____)" "is meant to convey the relationship between ideation and action."
Chasing Particles Is Fun
"A Singularly Unfeminine Profession" is more a blueprint for a fabulous book than a fully realized one, but it sparks discussion.
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