Science, Technology, Society

The Wall Street Journal: It’s Time to Get Rid of the IT Department. https://www.wsj.com/articles/get-rid-of-the-it-department-11637605133?mod=flipboard

EatingWell: Consumer Reports Just Found Arsenic, Lead and Cadmium in Some Popular Spices. https://www.eatingwell.com/article/7926441/consumer-reports-heavy-metals-spices/

The New York Times: Opinion | America Isn’t Ready for the Electric-Vehicle Revolution. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/opinion/electric-vehicle-climate-battery.html

 

James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.

Source: The Freak Accident That Challenged Rehab Engineering – The Atlantic

The New York Times: Opinion | Science Alone Can’t Heal a Sick Society. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/opinion/covid-science-trust-us.html

MIT Technology Review: Meet Altos Labs, Silicon Valley’s latest wild bet on living forever. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/04/1034364/altos-labs-silicon-valleys-jeff-bezos-milner-bet-living-forever/

In this extract from his new book, Johann Hari, who took antidepressants for 14 years, calls for a new approach

Source: Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? | Depression | The Guardian

 

The creative class was supposed to foster progressive values and economic growth. Instead we got resentment, alienation, and endless political dysfunction.

Source: How the Bobos Broke America

Phys.org: Surrey builds AI to find anti-ageing chemical compounds. https://phys.org/news/2021-07-surrey-ai-anti-ageing-chemical-compounds.html

The New York Times: A Young Naturalist Inspires With Joy, Not Doom. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/books/dara-mcanulty-diary-of-a-young-naturalist.html

Vox.com: Why food and housing assistance is essential for improving America’s health. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22567034/us-health-care-trends-social-determinants-of-health

Gizmodo: In 2030, You Won’t Own Any Gadgets. https://gizmodo.com/in-2030-you-wont-own-any-gadgets-1847176540