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Why Are We So Eager to Hear “Placebo” Speak?
How important are placebo effects?
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein
Information Emerges Naturally
Information successfully counters, if only for a few moments, the disordering entropy of the universe.
Rethinking Knowledge in the Internet Age
With the internet at our fingertips, this is the greatest time to be a curious person wanting to learn, and it is the greatest time to be a complete idiot.
Type Slowly: Word Processing and Literary Composition
Speaking Substances: Rock
Speaking Substances: Bodies
The Oglala Lakota chief Red Cloud, who lived from 1822–1909, is distinguished by two unusual superlatives.
Speaking Substances: Ice
What can we learn about climate change by listening to a surprising sound: the sound of ice?
Automating the Professions: Utopian Pipe Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?
"The Future of the Professions" argues that standardization of legal filings, briefs, and judgments is the way of the future.
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.
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.
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