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At the 2014 Neuroimaging conference held this year in San Francisco, industry professionals exhibited the promises and risks of being able to track, download, and manipulate brain waves.
Certainly among the postwar works, says Princeton University professor Peter Singer, is the notion that art challenges society's prevailing norms. Oh, the irony.
In the wake of the Santa Barbara shootings, in which gunman Elliot Rodger video-recorded his own misogynistic outlook on life, a national conversation began about the state of women in society.
Industrial-scale maggot production has just begun but is already showing sings of promise. But will consumers accept maggot-fed meat on their plate?
The history of the liberal arts has created many different reasons why a diverse and well-rounded education is necessary, so encapsulating one clear reason is a very difficult task.
"We are free by nature because we can become free, in the course of our development. And this development depends at every point upon the networks and relations that bind us to the larger social world."
A new way of thinking about our biology--or rather, a very old way--is essential if we are to collectively solve the existential problems that face humanity, says UC Berkeley physicist Fritjof Capra.