November 27, 2024
(The Walrus) – Time, relationships, identity, and, yes, finances: for a few years, a child’s arrival can upend anyone’s world. But between the housing crisis, an underperforming child care system, soaring food costs, and a status-driven culture that encourages top-of-the-line … Read More
November 19, 2024
(The Conversation) – Thanks to bestselling authors like Jonathan Haidt and Jean Twenge, the public has become increasingly aware of the rapid rise in mental health issues among younger people in many western countries. Their warnings about the destructive impact … Read More
November 6, 2024
(Wired) – As Hollywood studios, actors, and writers wrangle over the use of AI in films, a major new release has fully embraced it. On Friday, TriStar Pictures released Here, a $50 million Robert Zemeckis-directed film that used real-time generative … Read More
October 28, 2024
Bioethics (vol. 38, no. 9, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 21, 2024
(Axios) – Singer Lance Bass’ efforts to eat right, exercise and take medication weren’t helping to manage his newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes symptoms — until doctors determined he actually had a lesser-known condition known as Type 1.5 diabetes. Why it … Read More
October 9, 2024
(New York Times) – I’m in the writers’ room helping to draft the script for a new television medical drama, and we’ve hit a roadblock in the fourth act. We’ve successfully set up the mystery and designed a clever way … Read More
September 3, 2024
(Washington Post) – Over Labor Day weekend, you can jump scare yourself silly with this generation’s go-to terror: an artificial intelligence gone rogue. The new horror movie “AfrAId” — yes, that’s how the filmmakers write it — centers on a … Read More
August 21, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – ‘Friends’ star spent his life searching for healing in a world willing to sell it It was that persistent search for a solution that led Perry to try ketamine, the dissociative drug that federal prosecutors in … Read More
August 1, 2024
(New York Times) – It’s probably not selfishness, experts say. Even young adults who want children see an increasing number of obstacles. Notably, studies of the reasons behind the fertility decline don’t reveal a dramatic shift in the desire to … Read More
July 1, 2024
(New York Times) – The Biden administration said this week that it opposed gender-affirming surgery for minors, the most explicit statement to date on the subject from a president who has been a staunch supporter of transgender rights. The White … Read More
June 19, 2024
(The Atlantic) – So youth in English-speaking Canada are becoming sadder faster than those in French-speaking Canada, and measures of teen suicidality are rising in the Anglosphere but less so in similar less-English-speaking countries. What’s the deal with Anglosphere despair? Maybe … Read More
June 12, 2024
(Axios) – Florida’s restrictions on gender-affirming care for both minors and adults are unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Why it matters: The decision lifts restrictions for transgender adults and overturns a ban on trans children … Read More
June 6, 2024
(Washington Post) – As AI-generated images spread across entertainment, marketing, social media and other industries that shape cultural norms, The Washington Post set out to understand how this technology defines one of society’s most indelible standards: female beauty. Using dozens … Read More
June 6, 2024
(The Guardian) – If your carefully crafted life plan has been scuppered by sofa time, bingeing on fast food, drinking too much and failing to contribute to the company pension, it may be time for a chat with your future … Read More
June 5, 2024
April 5, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The Food and Drug Administration is making plans to significantly expand the number of gay and bisexual men who could donate sperm anonymously. Longstanding agency rules ban anonymous sperm donations by men who acknowledged having sex … Read More
March 8, 2024
(New York Times) – More than 230 million women and girls around the world have undergone female genital cutting, according to a new analysis by UNICEF, an increase of 30 million since the organization’s last global estimate in 2016. While … Read More
March 4, 2024
(The New Atlantis) – Transhumanism is so over. Wrinkles are so back. Young women’s social media feeds are flooded with plugs for Botox. By our early twenties, modernity is already dangling opportunities in front of us to flee from a … Read More
February 28, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Opposing technology isn’t antithetical to progress. See illustrated story here.
February 21, 2024
(Center for Humane Technology) – We usually talk about tech in terms of economics or policy, but the casual language tech leaders often use to describe AI — summoning an inanimate force with the powers of code — sounds more… … Read More
February 19, 2024
(Medscape) – How big is the problem? According to the first-ever European Union (EU)–wide survey on loneliness, EU-LS 2022, conducted by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), around 13% of 20,000 respondents reported feeling lonely most or all of the time … Read More
February 12, 2024
(NPR) – A new film streaming on Hulu considers a subject that’s sometimes in the news, but not often in entertainment: hospice end-of-life care. Suncoast is writer-director Laura Chinn’s fictional account of her life in the early 2000s as a … Read More
December 18, 2023
(Wired) – When Spike Jonze’s Her came out in 2013, the film about a lonely man falling for an artificially intelligent operating system won widespread praise. Watching today, the qualities critics celebrated at the time are still there—it’s a gentle, … Read More
December 6, 2023
(Science) – The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is launching a new series today examining its own complicity in perpetuating slavery and its legacy in the United States. In doing so, the 211-year-old journal joins several other publications and … Read More
December 4, 2023
(Vox) – Uncertainty is normal. Becoming a parent is a life-changing decision, after all. But this moment is unlike any women have faced before. Today, the question of whether to have kids generates anxiety far more intense than your garden-variety … Read More
