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The bioethicist believes it’s an idea whose time has come. But how could such a market be regulated to prevent abuses?
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The bioethicist argues that humans do not gain real sentience until infancy, and that even mothers who commit infanticide should be treated far more gently than other murderers.
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Is euthanasia, or physician-assisted suicide, ever justified? And when do vegetative states become inseparable from death?
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How bioethicists can steer clear of political tensions on the job, and why past friction between bioethicists and doctors is quickly disappearing.
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The discipline is less than 30 years old, but its practitioners have become a fixture in hospitals, and its inquiries have “brought morality back into the field of philosophy.”
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A conversation with the bioethicist and fiction writer.
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Why the two disciplines are intersecting now more than ever.
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How free will and randomness intersect, and how working on ourselves could help events work out in our favor.
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The question of human autonomy, the alternate universes that our choices can open up, and the problem of measurement awareness.
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People often trick themselves into believing they are significantly more skilled in risky situations than they actually are.
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Human beings will make unwise decisions — and sometimes they’ll make radically unwise decisions. But we aren’t fundamentally rational or irrational creatures.
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The Florida State University professor on how he got into the study of philosophy and why we sometimes go out and party when we know we should be studying.
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A conversation with the Florida State University professor of philosophy.
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A profound fear of his own mortality.
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Why this year’s Seder will bring a whole new understanding to the holiday.
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It’s a stereotype that’s unfortunately true—and spans many religions.
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The most difficult aspect of being a rabbi? Dealing with Jewish people.
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At the New Shul in Manhattan, being Jewish isn’t everything.
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Rabbi Niles Goldstein helped create a modern synagogue that’s home to all sorts of untraditional ideas.
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Sometimes too many options lead to disengagement, says the New Shul rabbi.
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How martial arts enabled a spiritual leader to open up.
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A conversation with the founding Rabbi of the New Shul in Manhattan.
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A rock tune celebrating his work has become an Internet hit. But did it please the professor himself?
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As the celebrated mathematician writes his memoirs, he reflects on the combination of good luck, hard luck, and constant dreaming that made his life a success.
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The mathematician has long believed the traditional understanding of market fluctuations would need to be replaced with his fractal model. Unfortunately, he says, “my time…has come.”
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The word “fractals,” which Benoit Mandelbrot invented, has caught on with everyone from kids to club owners.
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The father of fractal geometry marvels that his work has led to computer renderings of natural shapes that are indistinguishable from the real thing.
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The geometry of fractals may be relatively new, but humans—especially artists—have perceived them in nature for ages.
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How a quest to combine aesthetics with mathematics produced one of math’s most famous, and gorgeous, images: the Mandelbrot set.
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What are fractals? The man who invented the term—and the geometry to go along with it—explains how complex natural shapes such as mountains and coastlines can be represented mathematically.
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