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Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.
Amy Moran-Thomas
America's voting technologies are gravely inefficient, but solutions are less complicated than many politicians have indicated.
Stephen Ansolabehere
Emerging technologies increase people's ability to wall themselves off from topics and opinions that they would prefer to avoid, creating serious dangers.
Cass Sunstein
Stephen Jay Gould is wrong about evolution.
John Alcock
How greater economic equality would promote public health.
Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy, Ichiro Kawachi
Can religion and science be happily reconciled?
H. Allen Orr
The United States is in the midst of a fundamental reorientation of its environmental regulation, one that is as improbable as it is unremarked.
Charles Sabel, Archon Fung, Bradley Karkkainen
An interview with the Rev. Eugene Rivers III.
Eugene F. Rivers III, Eva T. Thorne
Two new collections of essays contribute to the public debate—with varied results.
Jyl Gentzler
Has any other industrial product so dominated its time?
Neil Shister
Battling cystic fibrosis.
Rosemary Quigley
By E. O. Wilson.
Markets need to be reshaped to protect the environment, and such reshaping will require political struggle.
Jay Mandle
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