Stakes are High in Oracle v Google
In this short piece about the Oracle vs. Google case, EFF’s Parker Higgins discusses how fair use isn’t enough.
Eliza Gets Her Gene Therapy
Dr. Ricki Lewis writes of a recent success story in gene therapy for Sanfillipo syndrome.
As Opioid Epidemic Continues, Steps to Curb It Multiply
The overdose death toll from opioids has almost quadrupled since 1999. Charles Ornstein investigates ways to curb the trend.
Sunday Comics
Sunday Comics: This week, Marmaduke eats a priest’s hat, much to his owner’s dismay.
The One-Armed Robot That Will Look After Me Until I Die
As old age approaches, Geoff Watts confronts an inevitable future in the care of robots. But that doesn’t mean he likes it.
The Lost History of Australia’s Penguins
Jon Tennant enters the rift to find Australia’s penguins of past and present.
User Content Platforms Take the Heat for Artists’ Struggles at WIPO
Electronic Frontier Foundation goes to Switzerland, where technology once again is being blamed for not keeping alive the industries it was designed to replace. The word from WIPO.
Haiku 45
The latest collection of poems from the Star’s Andrew Hamlin.
Namaste Inc.
Namaste for tourism. Ansh Patel explores the marketing of India to the Western bourgeois, who have been sold on the idea that their impressions will be made real by compliant natives.
Quiet on the Border
Aaron Bady looks into Yuri Herrera’s novel, Signs Preceding the End of the World and tries to find the elusive borderland.
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