Dr. Anthony Fauci, member of the Coronavirus Task Force and quintessential expert, gives a press conference. "Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director" by NIAID is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
The world contains more information than any one person can comprehend. Who do we turn to when we need guidance on something we ourselves do not understand? Nick Bulthuis discusses the challenges in distinguishing “experts” from other authority figures, particularly in the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Elon Musk, founder of Neuralink, a neurotech company founded in 2016 that’s working to build cutting edge brain machine interfaces.
Mental ping-pong in apes? It's not science fiction. Patricia Cooney examines how advances in neurotechnology have lead to the development of Brain Machine Interfaces (BMIs) that could transform how humans interact with the world.
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History repeats itself every time a politician pushes the narrative of “foreigners taking American jobs.” PhDish writer Sergej explores the impact of the restrictive visa policies that took place under the Trump administration.
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