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AI Apocalypse?

"A juvenility of moral imagination that is at the core of this."

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January 16, 2014, 2014
The Rise of Modern Medicine

Where’s the better medicine that would make all of us all healthier, without miracle surgery?

In the annals of Boston medicine two historic chapters in the last 50 years were the near conquest of sudden death by heart attack and (not unrelated) the rise of...
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January 2, 2014, 2014
El Sistema: Music Lessons to Rebuild the World

El Sistema is not an instruction method so much as a shared conviction: that every child wants to make music, and can. It has big social implications, too: that a...