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Can We Learn About Empathy From Torturing Robots? This MIT Researcher Is Giving It a Try
Should we treat robots sort of like animals, or strictly as tools? Researcher Kate Darling says the time has come to take these questions seriously.
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A Pharma Payment A Day Keeps Docs’ Finances Okay
Massive amounts of money trade hands in “dollars for doctors” payolas across the country. Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones report.
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Lucrative pseudoscience at the International Positive Psychology Association meeting
A plenary session dripping with crank science may be an outlier, but it’s on a continuum with the claims of mainstream positive psychology. James Coyne writes.
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New EFF Tool Makes Emailing Congress Just a Few Clicks Away
Political activism at the click of a mouse–EFF makes it easier for you to email your congressional representatives.
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What Would the Neighbors Think?
Cole Hornaday re-establishes a psychic link at the IHOP in his latest chapter of The Ghost and the Owl Wife.
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My Bra – I’d Like It Back: No Date Required
In the form of Missed Connections, a piece about temporary oblivion. Poetry by Jerry Kraft.
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Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine
Gary Corseri looks into a new anthology of short stories from the Gaza Strip and finds that you cannot uproot ideas.
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Could New Bipartisan Bill Force 2016 Contenders to Tackle Too-Big-To-Fail Banks?
The Glass-Steagall Act returns for the 21st Century. Deirdre Fulton reports.
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