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Friday, August 22, 2025

"William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician"

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"James was awarded his MD from Harvard Medical School in March 1869, after more than five years of interrupted study. This certificate ...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Can’t argue with that

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NYTimes: What Happens to Your Brain When You Retire? "There is great evidence that finding meaning in life gives one a great personal s...
Monday, August 18, 2025

NYTimes.com: What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life

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The medical profession has clear rules and responsibilities. What about the chatbots? ...Increasingly,  people  with mental health condition...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88

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A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insight...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Gene-editing human embryos to prevent disease

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https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5493448/gene-editing-human-embryos-designer-babies
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

How to Live Forever and Get Rich Doing It

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As researchers work to make death optional, investors see a chance for huge returns. But has the human body already reached its limits? http...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Joyspan

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…  Joyspan is a term coined by Kerry Burnight… In her upcoming book, "Joyspan: The Art and Science of Thriving in Life's Second Hal...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Will we let AI decide for us?

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Philosopher-Builders will not… https://youtu.be/H_g0RSSo0ho?si=M18OIVYFVQzXWTTN
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The 1st flu vaccine

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Today is the birthday  of microbiologist  Thomas Francis Jr. , born in Gas City, Indiana (1900). T.F., as he was known to his friends, grew ...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Scopes at 100: America Is Still Animated by the Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’ | Cover Story | nashvillescene.com

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...The challenge with teaching evolution in 2025 is the same each semester, says Elizabeth Barnes, who is now approaching her fifth year on ...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Changing the tribal mind

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From growing up in a highly religious household to becoming a leading evolutionary biologist and broadcaster, Ella Al-Shamahi's story is...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers

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…  Physicians like me know from the data that lives will be lost as a consequence. More than 6,000 health professionals (myself included) ha...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper

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Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into th...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Worst case scenario

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RFK Jr. is threatening the foundation of children's health in this country and we all need to be paying attention. Get loud. Stay lo...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Have you ever?

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SCHRIER: Have you ever treated measles? RFK JR: No SCHRIER: Well I have… https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DLSh1b1p8RC?xmt=...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

The Techno-Futuristic Philosophy Behind Elon Musk’s Mania

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"…The balance of evidence is such that it would appear unreasonable not to assign a substantial probability to the hypothesis that an e...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Brain (& heart) drain

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Dr. Timothy Johnson, longtime network TV medical reporter and founding editor of the Harvard Medical School Health Letter, says that by cutt...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

The President Will Destroy You Now

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"…This is going to completely kneecap biomedical research in this country," Jennifer Zeitzer, the deputy executive director at the...
Monday, May 19, 2025

The best in us

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Born on this day in 1872, Bertrand Russell lived nearly a century, through two world wars, and won the Nobel Prize for his timeless writing ...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Go to Mars, Never Die and Other Big Tech Pipe Dreams

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…  One prominent paper concluded that $100 spent on A.I. safety saves one trillion future lives — making it "far more" valuable ...