Uncertainty anchors our fear of change, / the sudden awareness of unforeseen circumstances. / We have seen the circumstances. / We have survived them / but many haven’t.
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Noah Hutton's In Silico documents the rise and fall of the Human Brain Project—a 10-year, billion-euro failed attempt to simulate the human brain. The project's spectacular size serves as a magnifying lens held to the system at large...
Like all historical processes, laboratories are shaped by class conflicts. This article presents a critical history of the lab and plots a future toward socializing our means of knowledge production.
September 1, 2021 The Elitist Trail and Other Poems By S. Rupsha Mitra The Elitist Trail It originates somewhere you don’t even recognize. Dungeons buried in the past, all self-proclaiming stereotypes in aeons — conditioned so well that...
Statements like the Great Barrington Declaration have disrupted political consensus among scientists and activists.
Ayahuasca is being explored by the nascent psychedelic industry, but what’s in it for the Native populations who created the medicine?
A champion of community-based primary care, Dr. H. Jack Geiger believed health services could lead to broader social transformation.
Holleman’s Dust Bowls of Empire analyzes the dustbowlification of the land as the predictable consequence of settler capitalist economies.
History repeats itself as a coalition of richer states block poorer countries from producing life-saving generic drugs and vaccines.
Deanna MacNeil explores the pleasures of self-preservation in her poem, "The Thermodynamics of Comfort."