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The Curse of Cow Clicker

You work for the Transportation Security Administration, manning the x-ray machine at a local airport. Your day begins easily enough, quickly scanning passengers’ luggage and bodies and waving…
AUTHOR:Jason Tanz
PUBLISHED: Dec. 20, 2011
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4573 words)

Drone-Ethics Briefing: What a Leading Robot Expert Told the CIA

Last month, philosopher Patrick Lin delivered this briefing about the ethics of drones at an event hosted by In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture-capital arm. It's a thorough and unnerving survey of what it…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4818 words)

Seduction Therapy: Can Men Be Treated by Female Psychiatrists?

My girlfriend argued no man could be treated by a female therapist because complications due to sexual desire would impede every discussion One night less than two years ago, intoxicated on cheap…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1343 words)

The decline effect and the scientific method

On September 18, 2007, a few dozen neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and drug-company executives gathered in a hotel conference room in Brussels to hear some startling news. It had to do with a class…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 13, 2010
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1003 words)
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