October 15, 2025
(CT) – Study author praises staff members who “stay where their presence matters most.” A new study is shedding light on a rarely researched area: faith-based health care in low-resource settings. The study, published in JAMA Surgery, found dramatically lower … Read More
October 15, 2025
(BBC) – The world’s first IVF baby has given her backing to an international fertility care campaign. Louise Brown, 47, from Bristol, was the first in the world to be born via in vitro fertilisation (IVF) at Oldham General Hospital … Read More
October 13, 2025
(Aeon) – The convergence of singular talent and profound disability confounded scientists eager to place humans into neat categories To use the language of the 19th century, how could a person be at once both a ‘genius’ and an ‘idiot’? … Read More
October 9, 2025
(YouTube) – “This does not have to be our destiny.” Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology Tristan Harris sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss how AI has already disrupted the workforce as current iterations of the technology have … Read More
October 3, 2025
(CT) – A tragic accident jump-started my relationship with God. It also made me question his goodness. I spent a lot of time in the hospital wondering just what kind of God this was. I had no doubt that God … Read More
October 1, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Yoshua Bengio worries about AI’s capacity to deceive users in pursuit of its own goals. ‘The scenario in “2001: A Space Odyssey” is exactly like this,’ he says A little over two years ago, AI pioneer … Read More
September 30, 2025
(New York Times) – Robert Munsch wrote “The Paper Bag Princess,” “Love You Forever” and other classics by performing them over and over for kids. But his stories are slipping away. After 50 years of publishing, Munsch told me, his … Read More
September 26, 2025
(Longreads) – As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time. Last May, I found myself in the basement of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and … Read More
September 25, 2025
(Popular Science) – In 1907, Duncan MacDougall put dying patients on a scale. MacDougall hoped to discover whether a soul had mass with his macabre experiment, and if so, how much. His tests with patients, later known as the 21 … Read More
September 22, 2025
(Futurism) – People are far more likely to lie and cheat when they use AI for tasks, according to an eyebrow-raising new study in the journal Nature. “Using AI creates a convenient moral distance between people and their actions — … Read More
September 16, 2025
(New York Times) – The taboo against pork is deeply entrenched in both religious traditions. But the prohibition is not absolute. It has not always been entirely clear whether the religious prohibitions on pigs apply strictly to consumption, and neither … Read More
September 16, 2025
(New York Times) – Millions are turning to chatbots for guidance from on high. God works in mysterious ways — including through chatbots. At least, that’s what many people seem to think. On religious apps, tens of millions of people … Read More
September 9, 2025
(Comment) – In Bioethics After God: Morality, Culture, and Medicine, a misbegotten if earnest attempt to reframe the discipline from within the standpoint of traditional Christian morality, Mark J. Cherry argues that the root of this disagreement lies in the … Read More
September 3, 2025
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 50, no. 4, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 26, 2025
(Unherd) – As the historian Nadya Williams has shown, Greece and Rome offer proof that the parental quest for quality control over offspring is anything but new. Indeed, the popular stories of the era vigorously affirmed such practices. From Thetis … Read More
August 22, 2025
(Techradar) – GPT‑5 Pro impresses with its complex, layered response to prompts. The crown jewel of the GPT-5 rollout this month even made OpenAI CEO Sam Altman nervous with some of its responses. But you shouldn’t confuse brilliant algorithmic models … Read More
August 20, 2025
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 34, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 11, 2025
(CBS News) – James Robert III was born with no fingers on his left hand, and he is using his disability to fuel a passion to help others like him. The recent Louisiana State University graduate is pursuing a master’s degree in … Read More
August 7, 2025
(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) – Thirty years ago, as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, I wrote an essay on the 50th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In that piece (which can be found here), … Read More
August 6, 2025
(Wired) – First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective memory—the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. On August 6, 1945, the sky … Read More
August 5, 2025
(Nature) – Eighty years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, it is crucial that witness accounts are saved. Here is what one man told me. By the summer of 1945, after peace was declared in Europe, Japan was … Read More
July 31, 2025
(AJOB) – We pay tribute to the late Tom L. Beauchamp, who died February 19, 2025. He was one of the most prolific, important, and influential philosophers in bioethics, but he also made major contributions to other areas of philosophy … Read More
July 30, 2025
Bioethics (vol. 39, no. 6, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 29, 2025
(USA Today) – Jamie Lee Curtis is stirring controversy with her latest comments on plastic surgery. The “Freakier Friday” actress, 66, a longtime critic of cosmetic surgery, doubled down on her distaste in a new interview, likening it to genocide. … Read More
July 29, 2025
(Washington Post) – A pioneer in consumer affairs journalism, he helped expose the deformity-causing hazards posed by thalidomide, a once-popular drug for morning sickness. Morton Mintz, a Washington Post reporter who brought a muckraker’s zeal to business reporting, notably by … Read More
