Staying Human
Advancing science and medicine for, not on, human beings
Advancing science and medicine for, not on, human beings
In a new book, an eminent psychologist with an “unquiet mind” explores why it often takes one to treat another.
Why 20 years of throwing cold water on utopianism found an audience
Adderall is America’s new legal drug of choice. Is it fueling the drug crisis?
Why the end of the human species would be bad, actually
Good news: The agonizing moral quandary of “designer babies” has been resolved. But will scientists accept democracy’s verdict?
AI will destroy a lot of jobs that are already pointless. Is that really worth celebrating?
At a moment when people who don’t share our identity feel alien, Oliver Sacks’s classic book about reaching catatonic patients has much to teach us.