Epicene Cyborg

Ketamine works great for depression and other conditions, and costs $10/dose; the new FDA-approved “ketamine” performs badly in trials and costs a fortune.

Cancer Patients Are Getting Robotic Surgery. There’s No Evidence It’s Better. High-tech surgical robots aren’t an improvement over traditional operations, the F.D.A. warns. For some patients, the robots may be worse. But see, they can charge you 10x as much. That’s “better” in their eyes.

Abolish the Billionaire Class.

Gentrification Is a Feature, Not a Bug, of Capitalist Urban Planning.

The Politics of The Green New Deal: Part 1.

How the Rich Really Play, “Who Wants To Be An Ivy Leaguer?”

Destruction from sea level rise in California could exceed worst wildfires and earthquakes, new research shows.

Colbert Smears Tulsi Gabbard To Her Face While Telling Zero Jokes. Establishment patsy, like anyone else who makes it onto TV.

Pressure Cooker: the morality of home cooking.

Give me back my monolith.

Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation.

With days to go until the #CopyrightDirective vote, #Article13’s father admits it requires filters and says he’s OK with killing Youtube. Most media companies would be fine with rolling back to 1990.

Rewarding Neglect and Punishing Investment in Struggling Neighborhood.

Research carried out in partnership between the nonprofit Hives for Humanity and the University of British Columbia showed that honey collected from urban beehives can accurately measure how polluted a city is.

Vaccines Against Measles And Other Diseases Confer Added Protections.

You can simultaneously think markets are a useful civic tool and recognize obvious, egregious failures. Alas, most people can’t actually hold two ideas that conflict in some way in their head at once.

Modern Monetary Theory: Democrats Should Try New Economic Ideas. QE did not work out fine: massive asset inflation, bubble.

Your Environment Is Cleaner. Your Immune System Has Never Been So Unprepared.

This story of how rich people schemed and broke the law to get kids into college is a perfect capsule of America now.

On Surveillance in the Workplace.

Graying Out. It looks like the future of the internet and web is to get worse and worse, forever (fuck smartphones).

America’s Defining Divide Isn’t Left vs. Right. It’s Old vs. Young. When most of the Boomers die, things might improve. But it’ll probably be too late due to climate change.

The World Wide Web at 30: We got the free and open internet we deserve. And now we’re going to have to rebuild it from the ground up.

The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives.

All College Admissions Are a Pay-to-Play Scandal. Exactly. The meritocracy is a complete lie. All rigged from end to end. Why should I trust experts again? Why should anyone?

Dream of desegregation is dying, and white parents are enabling it.

Ignore All Arguments About What Is “Politically Feasible.”

As if being picked on wasn’t bad enough, victims of workplace mistreatment may also be seen as bullies themselves, even if they’ve never engaged in such behavior.

Results showed that both girls and boys engage in gender-enforcing behavior. Further, findings suggest that aggression and biased gender-related beliefs are associated with gender-enforcing behavior.

The phenomenon of moral contagion has a number of important implications for understanding morality and politics in the digital age.

Selfish genetic elements amplify inflammation and age-related diseases.

Microsoft’s new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture. Back to IE6 days we go.

For all the many controversies around Facebook’s mishandling of personal data, Google actually knows way more about most of us.

Googling Strangers: One Professor’s Lesson On Privacy In Public Spaces.

Tim Berners-Lee: ‘Stop web’s downward plunge to dysfunctional future’.

Engineering for the Long Haul, the NASA Way.

People in open-concept homes are realizing the walls were there for a reason.

Octopus And Squid Evolution Is Officially Weirder Than We Could Have Ever Imagined.

Amid the opioid crisis, a different drug comes roaring back. Deaths caused by meth use have risen 18-fold this decade.

Hylozoism.

Winograd Schema Challenge.

The dirty error-prone algebra is better done by computers. Learning math that makes you stupider (from an absolute and opportunity cost perspective) is utterly pointless.

St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1894.

China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.

Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox.

These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers. The economists are leveraging their academic prestige with secret reports justifying corporate concentration. Their predictions are often wrong and consumers pay the price.

Accidental Empires.

Why Do We Have To Suffer.

If We’re Going to Break Up Big Tech, We Shouldn’t Forget Big Telecom.

A Crisis of Identification.

Women Do Ask for More Money at Work. They Just Don’t Get It.

Measles Is a Quintessential Political Issue of Our Time.

Seat Choice in a Crowded Café: Effects of Eye Contact, Distance, and Anchoring.

Reality Bites: ‘Captain Marvel’ and the Lie of the ’90s. Now that is how you do a fucking review.