Reviews
- Humans
Our Final Invention
Computers already make all sorts of decisions for you. Imagine if the machines controlled even more aspects of life and could truly think for themselves.
- Genetics
Family takes on progeria in ‘Life According to Sam’
A new documentary portrays an extraordinary search for a cure spurred by a teen with the premature aging disease.
- Science & Society
Scarcity
Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir explain why having too little means so much.
- Health & Medicine
‘Decoding Annie Parker’ portrays hunt for breast cancer genes
Not long ago, most doctors scoffed at the idea of a “cancer gene,” as the new film shows.
- Neuroscience
Brainy videos
A short film that uses humor and science to explain congenital anosmia has won the Society for Neuroscience’s 2013 Brain Awareness Video Contest.
- Astronomy
The NASA take on ‘Gravity’
An astronaut and a NASA expert consider the reality of the film’s space dangers.
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- Science & Society
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
Hermann Goring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII by Jack El-Hai.
- Psychology
Behind the Shock Machine
The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments by Gina Perry.
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