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Can the agency that invented modern drug development survive so many assaults on its reputation? A former FDA insider reads an 800-page book to find out.
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NASA has always balanced the fantastical against the sensible. What happens when the scales start to tip?
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A conversation about how agency is gained, used, and misused. And also love, drugs, and the Enneagram.
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For half a decade we’ve been worrying that ideas are getting harder to find. In fact, they might just be harder to sell.
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The decline of criticism might explain the sense that our culture is stagnating. How can we bring it back?
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The Telepathy Tapes claims that autistic children have the ability to read minds. Where do their claims come from — and why do so many people believe them?
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Jung was born 150 years ago. In a special anniversary edition of his biography, all we can see is his shadow.
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How does the *paideía* of the Chinese tech elite differ from their counterparts in Silicon Valley?
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The Internet promised easy access to every book ever written. Why can’t we have nice things?
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David Lilienthal’s account of his years running the Tennessee Valley Authority can read like the Abundance of 1944. We still have a lot to learn from what the book says — and from what it leaves out.
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Five editions on, the DSM shoulders more responsibilities than it was ever intended for. How did we get here?
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A love story told in books.
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What does it take to turn South Korea's mandatory military service into a literary retreat?
12: Books
Space stations. Shadow selves. “The biggest contribution the United States has yet made to society in the modern world.” Are we doomed? Marshall McLuhan’s hit radio single. Don’t say NPC. Anxiety may occur under any circumstances. What’s wrong with culture? What are Chinese founders reading? What if Google Books just worked? We have all the ideas we need.