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Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.
Amy Moran-Thomas
Can religion and science be happily reconciled?
H. Allen Orr
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
An exchange on Stephen Pinker's How the Mind Works.
Steven Pinker, Robert C. Berwick, Jeremy C. Ahouse
Science’s victory over bacteria, viruses, and other microbes is far from assured—and we may be part of the problem.
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Critics of The Bell Curve have attacked every point in the book—except the most important one.
Ned Block
Into the electronic millenium.
Sven Birkerts
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