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Sex Robots Are Here, But Laws Aren’t Keeping Up

30 June 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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How You’re Tricked Into Believing Fake News

20 June 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Katy Steinmetz Time Sitting in front of a computer not long ago, a tenured history professor faced a challenge that billions of us do every day: deciding whether to […]

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We Once Thought Nostalgia was a Disease, But it Might be Key to Our Survival

8 April 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Eleanor Cummins Popular Mechanics We’ve all felt that jab to the soul you get from driving by your old high school haunts or hearing a tune you once danced […]

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The Brain, the Criminal, and the Courts

17 January 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Eryn Brown Knowable Magazine On March 30, 1981, 25-year-old John W. Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan and three other people. The following year, he went on trial for […]

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The Neuroscience of Reality

28 August 2019by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Anil K. Seth Scientific American On the 10th of April this year Pope Francis, President Salva Kiir of South Sudan and former rebel leader Riek Machar sat down together […]

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Spot the Psychopath

21 August 2019by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Sally Davies Aeon Psychopath. The word conjures up the image of a cold-blooded killer, or perhaps a fiendishly clever but heartless egoist. There’s Ted Bundy, who in the 1970s […]

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Criminal Justice in a World Without Free Will

15 January 2018by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By James Flynn Brown Political Review Scientific advancement has often upended long-cherished human beliefs. In the 17th century, the discovery that the Earth was not in fact at the center […]

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Hope or Hype? Neuroscience & Criminal Law

7 August 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Stephen J. Morse The Neuroethics Blog The discovery of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 1991, which permits non-invasive imaging of brain function, and the wide availability of scanners for research […]

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The Age of Artificial Immortality

28 July 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By James Vlahos Wired It’s 1982, and I’m 11 years old, sitting at a Commodore PET computer terminal in the atrium of a science museum near my house. Whenever I come […]

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Defending Kevin Davis’s “The Brain Defense”

6 July 2017by TheThresh.com 1 Comment

By Andreas Kuersten TheThresh.com The drafting of a book is an intense undertaking, requiring a significant devotion of time and effort. Accordingly, book reviewers have an obligation to apply themselves […]

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