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Issues in Science and Technology

• How CERN Earns Trust at Scale
  2026-10-26 by Jay Lloyd
  Understanding how one of the world’s most enduring and successful large-scale science collaborations has made its work credible can help Europe build trustworthy infrastructure for artificial intelligence in science. The post How CERN Earns Trust at Scale appeared first on Issues in Science and Technology.
• Robert Rauschenberg: Reinventing the Art of Flight
  2026-10-22 by Jay Lloyd
  The artist Robert Rauschenberg’s fascination with flight extended beyond aircraft and space exploration to broader questions of ingenuity, freedom, technological progress, and the relationship between nature and culture. The post Robert Rauschenberg: Reinventing the Art of Flight appeared first on Issues in Science and Technology.

The Markup

• Patients: All my best tips on how to opt out of data sharing
  2026-10-15 by Alex Rosenblat
  Even when patients are told they can opt out, medical providers often don’t give patients instructions on how. For patients who are interested in opting out, here are my best tips on how to start.
• MyChart and a major hospital said I could opt out of sharing my health data. But they didn’t make it easy
  2026-10-15 by Alex Rosenblat
  My journey included a notary, a hospital that won’t honor its own policies and employees that gave me wrong information.

Nautilus

• Spike-Thumbed Dino Discovered in the United Kingdom
  2026-10-26 by Jake Currie
  The swamp-dwelling iguanodon relative may have been dinner for spinosaurs The post Spike-Thumbed Dino Discovered in the United Kingdom appeared first on Nautilus.
• Inside the Mind of a Narcissist
  2026-10-26 by Kristen French
  Their brains don’t sync the same way when it comes to processing empathy The post Inside the Mind of a Narcissist appeared first on Nautilus.

New Humanist

• Book review: I Told You So!
  2026-04-23
  I Told You So! Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right (St Martin’s Press) by Matt Kaplan We like to think that science is guided by a noble ideal: evidence rules. When new data emerges, scientists revise their theories, abandon cherished ideas and move on. Except, of course, that this is largely […]
• A tourist in Libya
  2026-04-21
  Last summer, I finally visited Libya. Having worked as a freelance journalist throughout African countries for half a decade, I had wanted to visit Libya for years – not for the beaches or cuisine, but because I have long been drawn to the rough intrigues of North African politics, and the stories surrounding Muammar Gaddafi […]

Inside The New Space Race, with Nicholas Schmidle – With Reason

As mainstream space tourism grows ever more likely, New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle tells Niki Seth-Smith about life inside the new space race, as explored in his new book 'Test Gods'.  What motivates men like Bezos, Branson and Musk? How does the approach to risk in private business compare with that at NASA? And should we be looking to space at all, with so much unresolved here on planet earth? Plus, Nicholas reflects on fatherhood and masculinity, including the life of his father: a fighter pilot and Top Gun grad. Podcast listeners get a year's subscription to New Humanist magazine for just £13.50 by using the offer code WITHREASON. Subscribe now.**Recorded in August 2021**Further reading: 'Test Gods: Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race' (2021), Nicholas Schmidle'The Right Stuff' (1979), Tom Wolfe'In Praise of Astronauts' (2013) Paul Sims for New Humanist magazine

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• Podcast: The Entanglements Series Finale
  2026-10-23 by The Editors
  Welcome to the last installment of Entanglements, at least for the foreseeable future. In this final episode, hosts Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild are joined by Undark editor-in-chief Tom Zeller Jr. to talk about the show’s successes, failures, and more.
• Podcast: Is There a Population Crisis?
  2026-10-16 by The Editors
  This week on the show, our hosts talk to Michael Geruso, an associate professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin, and Jennifer Dowd, a professor of demography and population health at the University of Oxford, about population trends and fertility rates.
• Podcast: Which Animals Are Conscious?
  2026-10-09 by The Editors
  This week on the show, our hosts talk to Heather Browning, a philosopher at the University of Southampton in the U.K, and Deb Brown, a philosopher and the  director of the Critical Thinking Project at the University of Queensland in Australia, about which animals feel pain and more.