Science, technology, and life.

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• Homo Respect-us The creature genetic engineers fear most.
  William Saletan Dec. 18, 2004
  
• Let's Go to the Audiotape Who nailed the election results? Automated pollsters.
  William Saletan Dec. 9, 2004
  
• Monster Farming The creepy solution to the stem-cell debate.
  William Saletan Dec. 6, 2004
  
• Govern This The bioethics council falls to earth.
  William Saletan Dec. 4, 2004
  
• The Mind-Body Problem Watching the President's Council on Bioethics.
  William Saletan Dec. 2, 2004
  
• A Consumer's Guide to the Polls Read the ingredients before you buy.
  William Saletan Oct. 28, 2004
  
• Revelation of the Nerds The religion of stem-cell research.
  William Saletan Aug. 10, 2004
  
• Situationist Ethics Revisited More on who's responsible for Abu Ghraib.
  William Saletan May 21, 2004
  
• Situationist Ethics The Stanford Prison Experiment doesn't explain Abu Ghraib.
  William Saletan May 12, 2004