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Atish Rex Ghosh As 2020 draws to a close, many of us cannot wait for this annus horribilis to end. And for good reason: this year has seen more than a million and a half COVID-19 deaths; an economic collapse far greater than that of the 2008 financial crisis; a boiling-over of resentment against decades of racial and social injustice; record numbers of wildfires decimating millions of acres of pristine forests; and locust plagues of Biblical proportions. Yet, 2020 also gives us reason for hope. The development, within a few short months, of at least three COVID-19 vaccines that promise a high...

Books in Brief: Cynical Theories To understand wokeness, I often ask students to explain why they add the word “social” to “justice.” They have yet to provide a satisfactory answer. My subsequent requests for clarification induce paroxysms of frustration. Luckily, this book has now rescued me from my generational ignorance. Its authors explain how social justice makes students “skeptical of science, reason, and evidence,” “read power dynamics into every interaction,” “politicize every facet of life,” and “apply ethical principles unevenly in accordance with identity.” ...

Essentially technology, energy, et cetera? how did government become so intrusive in the science process? and to do that, we have to know history. it goes back to none other than franklin d. roosevelt, who, at the end of world war ii, saw that the manhattan project was going to be successful, probably. and he wrote to the director of the office that ran the project and said, hey, we need to keep all these scientists working for the government. they'll do great things and everybody will have a greater life, and that produced a document called science, the endless frontier that laid the blueprin...

Government to direct essentially technology, energy, et cetera? how did government become so intrusive in the science process? and to do that, we have to know history. it goes back to none other than franklin d. roosevelt, who, at the end of world war ii, saw that the manhattan project was going to be successful, probably. and he wrote to the director of the office that ran the project and said, hey, we need to keep all these scientists working for the government. they'll do great things and everybody will have a greater life, and that produced a document called science, the endless frontier t...

A dog there's a little brain and i say yes our brain is a little bigger but first earthlike are things we can't understand and our own brains may be one of those things it cannot be understood by human beings. the presence of downloading the contents of our brains onto a machine will remain science fiction for a long time to come still fervent research is being conducted into the field new technologies continue to be developed that help advance brain research and more and more robots are built that are modeled on humans. no one can predict today where scientific progress will lead to more. who...