A purpose-driven plan to open the lunar frontier
by Robert Zubrin
The Return of the Space Visionaries
by Rand Simberg
How space tycoons are bringing back the dream of truly settling the “high frontier” — and how policy can catch up
Lost on Mars
by Micah Meadowcroft
Why space colonization will disappoint you
Jon Ross; Rick Guidice; Joshua Lott / Getty
Frankenstein at 200
Kirsten A. Hall
The Idea Incarnate
How Dr. Frankenstein’s thoughts ran away from him
Brendan P. Foht
Responsible Frankensteins?
The trouble with the idea that we can play God, but ethically
David M. Buisán (JellyLondon.com)
Why physics can’t get rid of metaphor
by Samuel Matlack
Why Data Is Never Raw
by Nick Barrowman
On the seductive myth of information free of human judgment
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The Tech Backlash We Really Need
by L. M. Sacasas
Silicon Valley will only be strengthened by its present scandals unless we ask deeper questions.
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Time to Log Off
by Ian Marcus Corbin
On recognizing inhumane arrangements for what they are
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Jonas Salk, the People’s Scientist
by Algis Valiunas
The man who vanquished polio won the public’s love but never the respect of his peers.
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The University the King Built
by Waleed Al-Shobakky
A Saudi experiment in education aims to solve the West’s science malaise — and become a global research powerhouse.
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Disenchantment, Actually
by Doug Sikkema
Modern disenchantment may be a myth, but it is still the water in which we swim.
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The Illusionist
by David Bentley Hart
Daniel Dennett’s latest book marks five decades of majestic failure to explain consciousness.
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Must Science Be Useful?
Letters from scientists and policy experts on our widely read article “Saving Science,” with a response from Daniel Sarewitz.
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Till Tomorrow
by Adam Roberts
Three recent books go a long way toward humanizing the abstract “time” of physicists.
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The Moral Case for High-Tech Weapons
by Merav Ceren
Do drones and pinpoint strikes make war more just, or merely more efficient? Israeli innovation provides a test case.
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ADD for All
by Joseph E. Davis
Why do we have an “epidemic” of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder? The common explanations miss the underlying reasons our society is disposed to medicalize ADHD.
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Why Do We Think We Are Disenchanted?
Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm, Doug Sikkema, and John Wilson debate The Myth of Disenchantment
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What Happened to Bioethics?
by Yuval Levin
Why biomedical research doesn’t roil national politics anymore — and the thin hope offered by the last time it did
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How Facebook Deforms Us
by L. M. Sacasas
Strengthening our social fabric won’t be enough to fix the platform that’s fraying it.
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Did Thomas Kuhn Kill Truth?
by David Kordahl
A debate on the nature of truth turns into a squabble over whether the father of the “paradigm shift” threw an ashtray at Errol Morris’s head.
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Richard Feynman and the Pleasure Principle
by Algis Valiunas
The story of the vibrant, vivid, heroically fruitful and joyous life of a scientific legend.
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The Joy of Cryptozoology
by Clare Coffey
Why explore the cognitive hinterlands?
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Stories of Faith & Science
Faith and the Fear of Death
Jonathan Jong on confronting our mortality from the lab and the altar
Encounter in the Vale
Jonathan Mosedale recounts a story of hiking, frailty, and glimpsing the divine
Lives of the Immortalists
by Olga Rachello
The human stories of people who don’t want to be human
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