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
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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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 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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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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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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Whose Motivation? Which Good?
by James K. A. Smith
Social science’s big flaw isn’t relativism or the idea that social situations shape human action. The real arguments are over competing visions of the Good — and how the pursuit of the Good shapes our motivations.
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Toward a More Human Medicine
by Aaron Rothstein
The emphasis on patient satisfaction can turn doctors into little more than customer-service providers. Reform in medicine must bring both better curing and caring.
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The Use and Abuse of ‘Information’ in Biology
by Murillo Pagnotta
The concept of information has become central to modern biology, especially to the field of genetics, where DNA is often taken to be simply an organism’s instruction manual. But, Murillo Pagnotta argues, much “info-talk” is faulty or oversimplified — a failing with implications for how we think about nature, nurture, growth, and evolution.
Evolution and the Purposes of Life
by Stephen L. Talbott
Modern biology has tried to abolish purpose from living things — even as biologists implicitly attribute purposes and goals to molecules, genes, and the evolutionary process of natural selection. Stephen L. Talbott exposes the hidden assumptions behind the view that purpose in nature is just an illusion, and shows why purpose cannot be ignored or explained away.
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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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
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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Lives of the Immortalists
by Olga Rachello
The human stories of people who don’t want to be human
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Wokeness and Myth on Campus
by Alan Jacobs
The standard critique of college protests cries “free exchange of ideas!” But the students are motivated by social needs more fundamental than the ones affirmed by liberal norms.
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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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The Illusionist
by David Bentley Hart
Daniel Dennett’s latest book marks five decades of majestic failure to explain consciousness.
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