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What’s the Plan?

Yes, the Covid-19 shutdown is necessary — but it won’t work without a vision of how it ends.

by Ari Schulman

Save Lives, Ready Shovels

A six-point plan to end the Covid-19 crisis and prepare for recovery

by Ted Nordhaus

Stuart Isett

“A Coronavirus Winter”

Pandemic researcher Michael Osterholm on “mitigation fatigue” and the real purpose of testing

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Must Growth Doom the Planet?

In an age of stagnation, it’s time to shift how we think about the limits to growth.

by Ted Nordhaus

Reviving Expertise in a Populist Age

Wary of technocracy, a feckless Congress defers to executive bureaucrats.

by Zach Graves and M. Anthony Mills

After Climate Despair

The dream of a global conversion to austerity has failed to stop climate change. What comes next?

by Matt Frost

NASA / Joel Kowsky

The Mars Decision

How to show that American democracy can still do great things

by Robert Zubrin

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The New Kinship Engineering

Three-parent babies are being created not to prevent disease but to manufacture genetic relationships.

by Brendan P. Foht

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First, Take No Stand

On assisted suicide, the medical profession ducks behind “neutrality.”

by Aaron Kheriaty

Battlefield Promotions

by Aaron Kheriaty

A call to action for medical students against the Covid-19 pandemic

Library of Congress

Enlightenment Later

by Kent Anhari

Will reason survive rationalism?

by Michael M. Rosen

Are generalists due for a comeback?

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Custodians of the Body

by Alan Rubenstein

Our organ donation regime strikes the right balance between generosity to the living and respect for the dead.

National Galleries of Scotland

On the Monster Beat

by Clare Coffey

Why the civic needs the weird

by Ian Marcus Corbin

How Moleskine sells durability to ephemeral selves

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Einstein in Athens

by Benjamin Liebeskind

Modern science is unwittingly echoing Aristotle — and still has much to learn from him.

by Jon Askonas

How military drone technology is quietly creeping into policing, business, and everyday life

U.S. Air Force

In Search of Lost Time on YouTube

by Laurence Scott

How the platform takes us to places where we ache to go again

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Can Chess Survive Artificial Intelligence?

by Yoni Wilkenfeld

Computers are taking the error out of human chess — and the adventure.

DeepMind

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America’s Pandemic Data Gap

by Brendan Foht, Samuel Matlack, and Ari Schulman

The problem isn’t just testing — we still know far too little about what we already know.

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We All Wear Tinfoil Hats Now

by Geoff Shullenberger

How fears of mind control went from paranoid delusion to conventional wisdom

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The Ancients’ Tech Anxiety

by Charles T. Rubin

On the shallowness of reading mythology as sci-fi

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Crusoe at the Crossroads

by Kirsten A. Hall

On Robinson Crusoe, Lost, and why we keep returning to mysterious islands where science blurs with the supernatural

Derik Hobbs

Audio article

Do Elephants Have Souls?

Listen to the classic 2013 essay by Caitrin Keiper.

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Tell Him Something Pretty

by Robert Herritt

On the lowly view of reason in Deadwood

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Our Uneasy Tranquility

by Heather Zeiger

American use of anti-anxiety pills has skyrocketed. Should we be worried?

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The Most Dangerous Possible German

by Algis Valiunas

On the ambiguous legacy of Werner Heisenberg, quantum genius and would-be inventor of the Nazi A-bomb

David M. Buisán