Zach Maher

It’s Alive!

On the birth of mechanical life, the question of whether computers may be said to “live” at all, and the ways in which technology might, someday, grow up.

Medicine and Mistrust

A selection of articles on the widespread unease with expertise and mistrust of authority that complicates relations between doctors and patients

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