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Modern science already offers ways to enhance your mood, sex drive, athletic performance, concentration levels and overall health. But is such medically driven self-improvement always a good idea? Nick Bostrom, the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, believes it's time to open the ethical...
The truth is that scientists have only the foggiest idea of how many animals and plants exist on the planet. Estimates of the total number of species range wildly, from 5 million to 30 million to as many as 100 million. Although multitudes of uncharted animals and plants may be...
It’s a curious bit of authorial self-sabotage though, for as he witnessed the paralyzing effects of theory over action, Cortázar grew deeply suspicious of such a passive appreciation of words. In one of his early short stories, a character in a detective novel murders...
Brothers Charles and Henry Greene have a most appropriate surname. Their work—currently the focus of “A New and Native Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene,” which is showing at the MFA through Oct. 18—possesses a subtlety...
Freshmen entering Harvard College this year may be the first to experience the new Harvard Art Museum—if it opens by its scheduled date in 2013. Originally meant to reopen in 2012, the Harvard Art Museum is the renamed, renovated collective of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums...