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Harvesting
The question of “peak oil” or “peak spice" has always been a proxy for a paramount existential concern: whether we control anything at all....
Science & Technology
Language
Omnia El Shakry on the dream world of "Dune."...
Computers
In the "Dune" universe, despite their ostensible absence, the computers and artificial intelligences of Herbert’s time are palpably present....
Pharmacology
"Dune" marked a moment when this approach to experimental drugs entered pop culture....
Medicine
What to make of Dr. Wellington Yueh?...
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning
Julien Crockett talks with Justin E. H. Smith about his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is.”...
On Floating Upstream
In a review of Markoff’s biography of Stewart Brand, W. Patrick McCray notes that Brand’s ability to recognize and cleave to power explains a great deal of his career....
Dark Transparency: Hyper-Ethics at Trump’s EPA
Mario Biagioli and Alain Pottage get to the bottom of how scientific norms were radicalized by Trump’s EPA to turn against themselves....
Weird Science
From anti-vaxxers to Flat Earthers, the public’s (and scholars’) perception of science shifted sometime between 1990-2010, writes Michael Gordin....
Putting California Buddhism to Work in Silicon Valley
Fred Turner describes “Work Pray Code” as a fine-grained map of the traffic between religion and profit-seeking in Silicon Valley....
Take Nobody’s Word for It: A Conversation with Wes Jackson
Wes Jackson, who won a MacArthur for the idea of perennial grains grown in mixtures, is quite sure we are getting less intelligent....
The World Is a Strange Madhouse: 100 Years of Relativity
Paul Dicken marks the centenary of “The Meaning of Relativity,” Einstein’s attempt to explain his runaway theory and correct its “mad” cultural appropriations....
Every Age Gets the Mythology It Deserves
Colin Burgess’s “The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration” fails to take off....
The Sleep of Reason Produces Cats
The so-called “scientific method” may be a cage of sorts....
Wages for Climate Stewardship?
Sayd Randle considers the problems of “Climate Stewardship,” the new book by Adina Merenlender and Brendan Buhler....
Mystery Illnesses Writ Large
Modern medicine fails abysmally to account for mass psychogenic illnesses — they’re uncanny and paradigm-altering....
On Kinds of Minds and Kinds of Racism
To understand what kind of racism we face, argues George Makari, we need to understand the type of mind that undergirds it....
Space Tourism and Nature Writing
Christopher Schaberg considers "Four Fifths a Grizzly" and the future of nature writing....
Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “What Comes After CRISPR?”
A transcript of the panel discussion “What Comes After CRISPR?” – a satellite event of the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, which took place on November 5....
Beautiful Lies: The Art of the Deep Fake
Nicholas Carr shows how Jonas Bendiksen’s beautiful photographs “open a door onto a weird and unsettling future.”...
The Life Arboreal
Barbara Kiser reviews three books about our relationship to trees and the forest....
Heels: A New Account of the Double Helix
Nathaniel Comfort reviews Howard Markel's new book about Rosalind Franklin, "The Secret of Life."...
“Scientific Nightmare”: The Backstory of the “DSM”
Andrew Scull gives stellar marks to Allan Horwitz’s history of the DSMs....
No Geniuses Here
W. Patrick McCray praises Eric Hintz’s new book on America’s independent inventors in the 20th century....
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