January 4, 2006
Are We Worthy of Our Kitchens?
One of the best recent advertising campaigns is for a new line of high-end washers and dryers made by General Electric....
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January 4, 2006
Who Owns the Genome?
Like other ambitious public endeavors, the Human Genome Project was prone to the occasional spectacle. On June 26,...
January 4, 2006
The Rise of Guerrilla Media
Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an...
September 21, 2005
Conservatives, Liberals, and Medical Progress
Whether one wants to call it a problem, a plague, or a pending crisis, it is clear that healthcare systems throughout...
September 21, 2005
The Moral Education of Doctors
The true physician has a Shakespearean breadth of interest in the wise and the foolish, the proud and the humble, the...
September 21, 2005
The Image Culture
When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana in late August, images of the...
September 21, 2005
Buggy Software and Missile Defense
Since the days when the proposed Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) system was derisively called “Star Wars,” one of the...
September 21, 2005
Love in the Age of Neuroscience
Tom Wolfe's 'I Am Charlotte Simmons' asks: Is love possible in the age of neuroscience? Or have we unmasked human...
September 21, 2005
Francis Bacon’s God
In 1968 Howard B. White published Peace among the Willows, the first book-length analysis of Bacon’s “New...
September 21, 2005
The Aging Self
Aging is at once a biological, psychological, and social phenomenon. It is a universal feature of human life. We grow,...