January 9, 2023
(Axios) – Seattle Public Schools is suing social media companies including TikTok and Meta, saying the tech giants’ “misconduct has been a substantial factor in causing a youth mental health crisis.” Driving the news: “This mental health crisis is no … Read More
November 15, 2022
(Wall Street Journal) – A Georgia judge permanently blocked enforcement of the state’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, ruling that it was clearly unlawful at the time the state legislature passed it in 2019.
November 15, 2022
(The Verge) – Amazon has launched Amazon Clinic, a message-based online healthcare service that offers treatments for over 20 “common health conditions” such as allergies, dandruff, hair loss, birth control, erectile dysfunction, and acne. Amazon Clinic requires customers to select the … Read More
November 15, 2022
(MIT Technology Review) – Would you want a bottle of soda for just one cent? Before you say yes, there’s a catch: You have to pay by scanning your palm and sharing your information with a Chinese tech giant. This … Read More
November 14, 2022
(Wall Street Journal) – You probably haven’t noticed, but there’s a good chance that some of what you’ve read on the internet was written by robots. And it’s likely to be a lot more soon. Artificial-intelligence software programs that generate … Read More
November 11, 2022
(Science) – Throughout his career, Vonnegut wrote about hypothetical technologies that foresaw not just emergent fields of science such as artificial intelligence and geoengineering, but the ways in which culture and politics shape their effect on society. In doing so, … Read More
October 26, 2022
(Axios) – Loneliness in America is widespread — and it’s a public health problem. By the numbers: More than 1 in 3 Americans are lonely, per a Harvard study. That rises to 61% when looking at younger people, and 51% … Read More
June 10, 2022
The New Bioethics (vol. 28, no. 2, 2022) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Is Social Egg Freezing (Oocyte Cryopreservation) for Single Women Permissible in Islam? A Perspective from Singapore” by Alexis Heng Boon Chin and Shaikh Mohd … Read More
April 11, 2022
(The New Yorker) – After reclaiming Kyiv, Soviet authorities gave a group of foreign journalists a tour of Babyn Yar. The footage of that tour, along with pictures taken earlier by a Nazi photographer and a number of photos taken … Read More
December 21, 2021
The American Journal of Bioethics (vol. 21, no. 8, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Between Usual and Crisis Phases of a Public Health Emergency: The Mediating Role of Contingency Measures” by David Alfandre, et al. “Unjustified … Read More
