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Hard Feelings — Inside Out, Silicon Valley, and Why Technologizing Emotion and Memory Is a Dangerous Idea
"Inside Out" represents a potentially dangerous line of thinking.
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein
The More Noise, the More They Listen
Larry Kramer may be getting older, but his passion, anger, and humor about AIDS is only getting stronger, in his activism, his writings, and his life.
A Full Life Inside Each Drop
On the Move is Oliver Sacks’s most revealing book to date.
How Does Twitter Use You?
How does Twitter use you?
Competition and Coexistence: A Pushmi-Pullyu Perspective
Bad science is bad religion: on Greg Graffin's "Population Wars."
Rusted Development: The Fight Against Corrosion Creep
Rust cannot be stopped: Jonathan Waldman on our long war against rust.
Taking the Waters in Desert Hot Springs
For a brief time after its founding in 1941, Desert Hot Springs, California, was a boom town. Eventually, though, the boom went bust.
Two-Way Monologue: How to Get Past Science vs. Religion
Anyone tempted to believe that the history of human thought tends toward progress is well advised to consider the long-running, endlessly circular arguments over science and religion.
A Short Take on Mathematics
"Math Geek" may be the first math book ever to explicitly welcome "geeks" and "nerds."
Wired for Madness? A History
Madness in civilization, or so-called "degeneracy," can be interpreted in a variety of ways depending on the time period and who's in charge of categories.
Gendering Chromosomes
How the X chromosome became associated with all things female and the Y with all things male is not as simple as we all think.
Farewell to the Space Shuttle
Margaret Lazarus Dean's "Leaving Orbit" is a deft and lyrical meditation on the last days of the NASA space shuttle program.
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