Author: DPstaff

Why Doctors Dismiss the Gut-brain Relationship

Xi Chen at Aeon: Today, unlike in the 1990s, it is well established that conditions…

COVID Accountability: Fauci Made a Few Preposterous Claims During His Congressional Testimony

by Liz Wolfe at Reason: On Monday, Anthony Fauci—formerly the chief medical adviser to the…

Our Biggest Challenges—from Global Warming to Demographic and Technological Transformations—Cannot be Resolved by Countries Acting Alone

By Gita Bhatt at the IMF Blog: Our biggest challenges—from global warming to demographic and…

How Sonia Delaunay Paved the Way for Wearable Art as We Know it

Lynne Cooke at The Burlington Magazine: Visionaries are fundamental to the avant-gardes that appeared in…

Erik Rittenberry: You’re Painfully Alive in a Drugged and Dying Culture

by Erik Rittenberry at Poetic Outlaws: It’s quiet here in the early morning and no…

Tuesday Poem: Parking Meter

If a slot machine is a one-armed bandit,what does that make you? A cyclopeantroll? I…

Human-Like ‘Bio-Skin’ Gives Robots a Much More Nuanced Sense of Touch

By Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: We humans are highly visual creatures, but our skin…

Will Telepathy be Forever Out of Reach?

Roger Luckhurst at Aeon: In 2016, Elon Musk launched Neuralink with the aim of manufacturing…

Where Our Philosophical Debates are Going

Samuel Kimbriel at Wisdom of Crowds: This week, I’ve been re-reading Better Never to Have…

Biden vs. Netanyahu

Liz Wolfe at Reason: President Joe Biden has proposed a ceasefire plan. Israeli Prime Minister…

Are Electric Cars Better for the Environment than Fuel-powered Cars? Here’s the Verdict

Jo Lauder at ABC News (of Australia): Whether you drive an electric car or are…

Dinesh D’Souza’s Movie ‘2,000 Mules’ Retracted, But Still Lodged in Grandma’s Brain

William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Will Selber at The Bulwark: Ever since the “Stop the…