Big Money, We Unendorse You
The Seattle Star presents a “wea culpa”: we’re dropping our endorsement of Seattle City Council District 4 candidate Rob Johnson. Here’s why.
Fun Will Find A Way
J. Temperance writes of Baudrillard and Pablo Cruise.
Can We Learn About Empathy From Torturing Robots? This MIT Researcher Is Giving It a Try
Should we treat robots sort of like animals, or strictly as tools? Researcher Kate Darling says the time has come to take these questions seriously.
Sunday Comics
Sunday comics for 19 July 2015
A Pharma Payment A Day Keeps Docs’ Finances Okay
Massive amounts of money trade hands in “dollars for doctors” payolas across the country. Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones report.
Lucrative pseudoscience at the International Positive Psychology Association meeting
A plenary session dripping with crank science may be an outlier, but it’s on a continuum with the claims of mainstream positive psychology. James Coyne writes.
New EFF Tool Makes Emailing Congress Just a Few Clicks Away
Political activism at the click of a mouse–EFF makes it easier for you to email your congressional representatives.
What Would the Neighbors Think?
Cole Hornaday re-establishes a psychic link at the IHOP in his latest chapter of The Ghost and the Owl Wife.
My Bra – I’d Like It Back: No Date Required
In the form of Missed Connections, a piece about temporary oblivion. Poetry by Jerry Kraft.
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