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Race, Science & Nature

How a Popular Medical Device Encodes Racial Bias

Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.

Amy Moran-Thomas

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Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Reading Your Mind

How our brains help us understand other people.

Rebecca Saxe

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Making the Mind

From the Archive: Why we've misunderstood the nature-nurture debate.

Gary Marcus

Science & Nature

Our Technologies, Ourselves

Review: The Past and Future of Body Technology.

Carl Elliott

Science & Nature

Grave New World

Review: Staying Human in an Engineered Age .

George Scialabba

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Return of the Repressed

The strange case of Masud Khan.

Robert S. Boynton

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Embryonic Stem Cell Research

A moral defense.

F. M. Kamm

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Darwin and Design

A debate about the latest defense of intelligent design.

William A. Dembski, H. Allen Orr

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Do We Need a God?

Maybe not.

Richard Eldridge

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

Unnatural Sentences

Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science.

Brenda Wineapple

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

A Sublime Detective Story

William Dembski's No Free Lunch makes a confused case for Intelligent Design.

H. Allen Orr

Politics, Science & Nature

South Park

New-economy drivel leaves a San Francisco neighborhood high and dry.

Neil Shister

Politics, Science & Nature

What's Wrong with Missile Defense

 An interview with Ted Postol.

Joshua Cohen

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