Bioethics Education
The Baby We Kept
(Plough) – Our son Yusang has Down syndrome. He saved another child’s life. My wife and I had just learned that a couple from...
Bioethics Education
Meta Seeks to Bar Mentions of Mental Health—and Zuckerberg’s Harvard Past—From Child Safety Trial
(Wired) – The trial starts soon in New Mexico’s case against Meta—and the company is pulling out all the stops to protect its reputation....
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The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie
(New York Times) – We definitely have an attention problem, but it’s not just a function of the digital technology that pings and beeps...
Bioethics Education
What Have We Learned From Centuries of Chasing Immortality?
(New York Times) – People, and men in particular, have long mixed solid science and serious quackery in the pursuit of longevity. Whatever the...
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Surveillance and ICE Are Driving Patients Away From Medical Care, Report Warns
(Wired) – A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis”...
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China’s ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ Thinks Time Is on His Side
(New York Times) – He Jiankui spent three years in prison after creating gene-edited babies. Now back at work, he sees a greater opening...
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Can your health records be sold for profit? A lawsuit says it’s happening.
(Washington Post via MSN) – Epic’s disclosures offer a rare glimpse into the unseen workings of how your personal medical records move from one...
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Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese
(Wired) – Explosive acceleration, limited dexterity, eyes in the back of its head. What could possibly go wrong? Perhaps no humanoid maker has a...
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Charted: The big measles surge
(Axios) – This chart shows what it looks like to hit a 30-year high in measles cases — and why the U.S. is on...
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We Asked 300 People About Health Care Costs. The Numbers Are Shocking.
(New York Times) – More than 300 Times Opinion readers responded to a January invitation to share their experience of rising health care costs....
Bioethics Education
Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans
(ProPublica) – Each year, hundreds of thousands of women enter pregnancy with chronic conditions that put them at an elevated risk of long-term complications...
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A Child Welfare Agency Doubted the Accuracy of Drug Tests Used in Court. The Testing Company Dodged Questions.
(ProPublica) – A ProPublica investigation found that Averhealth’s lab practices have not only been faulted by its own accreditor but also targeted in lawsuits,...
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Beyond the Frame of Quiet Violence: Rethinking Surveillance Developmentalism Through Indian Realities and Philosophical Insight
Public debates on digital governance increasingly echo a familiar refrain: as soon as the state begins to rely on databases, biometrics, and algorithmic classification,...
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Surgical Discipline: How India’s Sugar Economy Weaponizes Women’s Bodies
Hysterectomy rates among sugarcane migrants many times India's national average. By Sahasranshu Dash, Devsurabhee Yaduvanshi | November 24, 2025 Over the past decade, reporting and surveys from Maharashtra...
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The Quiet Violence of Surveillance Developmentalism
India’s digital systems are built not to profit from users but to govern them. India today sits at a curious intersection of technological optimism...