Surrogacy Is the New Battleground in Reproductive Freedom
Critics on both the left and the right decry surrogacy as exploitative, especially when carriers are compensated.
The Strange, Lonely Childhood of Neko Case
As Case recalls in her memoir, the story was that her mother had had terminal cancer and gone to Hawaii to recover but didn’t ...
How artists and scientists see tree branches similarly
Yet only “Gray Tree” has scale-invariant branch diameters. When Mondrian removes the scale invariance in “Blooming Apple Tree ...
Art and science illuminate the same subtle proportions in tree branches
The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...
New Republic1d
It’s Time for Democrats to Woo the Man Vote
Dobbs emphasis on the women’s vote didn’t help the party among women—and it may have affirmatively alienated millions of men.
'I experienced the afterlife for six minutes - this is what I learnt that I wish I hadn't'
What happens after we die - if anything at all - is a question that has plagued humanity for all time, but one man who says ...
Psychology Today4d
Designing a Curious Machine Intelligence That Actually Thinks
An interview with Karl Friston, a computational psychiatrist and an architect of an AI developed to emulate natural ...
'I died for six minutes and saw what happens after death - the truth terrified me'
What happens after we die - if anything at all - is a question that has plagued humanity for all time, but one man who says ...
Is Keir Starmer the new Elvis? How celebrity endorsements can shape public health
Sir Keir Starmer has become the first sitting UK prime minister to publicly take an HIV test to reduce stigma around Aids and encourage more people to get tested. There are historical parallels. In ...
Libcom4d
What does the KAPD want?
Very short article by the KAPD about what it and the AAU is and what it wants. Originally published in "KAZ, 1928, No. 66".
Crux5d
Does the concept of ‘Synodality’ have running power? The history of ‘Papal Magisterium’ is mixed
Synodality” is a major theme of the Francis pontificate, but what does “Synodality” actually mean – and does it have staying ...
The Man Who Provided Nate Robinson with New Kidney, Life Extension
Nate Robinson literally made a friend for life in a Northwest man named Shane Cleveland, a Husky fan who on Friday donated a kidney to the former NBA standout a ...