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This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
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A report from a future where genetic engineering has sabotaged society.
The not-so-young parents sat in the...
Stephen Colbert’s assertion notwithstanding, none of us is color blind. Not even the blind, it turns out. That’s...
When Daniel Tammet was three years old, he fell down the stairs of the terraced family home he shared with...
One received a car, another money for college tuition, others cold, hard cash.
Most Canadian women who donate...
In the 1990s, French scientists wanted to see what happened to a mouse brain when they messed with...
At some point during the fall of 2005, Brian Stone grew tired of throwing up in a bucket...