By Shen Lu Politico On June 21, a new podcast appeared on several Chinese and American podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts. Called In-Betweenness, it was recorded by four academics scattered […]
By Christie Thompson The Marshall Project On a rainy June day, the manager of a Motel 6 outside Olympia decided one guest had to leave. The woman had been smoking […]
By Bob Holmes Knowable Magazine The unusual cases of pneumonia began to appear in midwinter, in China. The cause, researchers would later learn, was a coronavirus new to science. By […]
By Tina Eliassi-Rad, Henry Farrell, David Garcia, Stephan Lewandowsky, Patricia Palacios, Don Ross, Didier Sornette, Karim Thébault, & Karoline Wiesner Humanities and Social Sciences Communications The Economist recently identified 80 […]
By Viet Thanh Nguyen Time The face of Tou Thao haunts me. The Hmong-American police officer stood with his back turned to Derek Chauvin, his partner, as Chauvin knelt on […]
By Nicholas Grossman Arc Digital Here’s the critique: You say you value free speech and oppose social penalties for bad speech, but your actions show that you don’t. You value […]
By Michael Berens & John Shiffman Reuters Judge Les Hayes is among thousands of state and local judges across America who were allowed to keep positions of extraordinary power and […]
By Scott D. Halpern, Robert D. Truog & Franklin G. Miller Journal of the American Medical Association As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic abates in many countries worldwide, and […]
By Alon Harel Aeon Barbara and Mary are happily married. Barbara wants to buy Mary a new ring for her birthday. The problem is that Barbara knows nothing about jewellery. […]
By Francis X. Shen The Conversation The robots are here. Are the “sexbots” close behind? From the Drudge Report to The New York Times, sex robots are rapidly becoming a part of the national conversation […]
