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The Unintended Consequences of OTC Hearing Aids
I have nearly 98 percent hearing loss in both ears. For over 30 years, I’ve spent thousands of dollars on…
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The Unintended Consequences of OTC Hearing Aids
I have nearly 98 percent hearing loss in both ears. For over 30 years, I’ve spent thousands of dollars on…
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Google Search Is Quietly Damaging Democracy
Google’s aesthetic has always been rooted in a clean appearance—a homepage free of advertising and pop-up clutter, adorned only with…
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Birth Control TikTok Is a Symptom of Medicine’s Bigger Problem
Influencers need to stop encouraging people to get off hormonal birth control, say critics of an upsurge of TikToks (of…
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To Fix Tech, Democracy Needs to Grow Up
There isn’t much we can agree on these days. But two sweeping statements that might garner broad support are “We…
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How Can Society Prepare for the Moral Norms of Tomorrow?
One way of embracing this uncertainty is to adopt a stance of axiological open-mindedness toward the future. We can get…
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How the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Raid Could Expose Trump’s Secrets
The exclamation point is perhaps the most tantalizing part of Donald Trump’s post-raid-on-Mar-a-Lago statement: “They even broke into my safe!”…
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Facebook’s Message Encryption Was Built to Fail
The details are chilling. Police raiding a home, a teenager and her mother arrested, fetal remains exhumed from a rural…
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In Humanity’s Collective Unconscious, the Body Is a Bad Dream
The first images that I tried to generate from Dall-E Mini were of cartoon characters getting colonoscopies. The website, now…
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Humanity’s Biggest Problems Require a Whole New Media Mode
Our media systems are at their limits. From climate change to Covid, the most pressing phenomena of our times cannot…
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