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Can AI Smell Disease Before Symptoms Appear? What if disease leaves a biological signature before a patient develops obvious symptoms—and artificial intelligence could learn to recognize it? That question sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, biology, and medical diagnosis. In his conversation with Randy Bock, NYU professor and artificial intelligence researcher Vasant […]

Disability benefits can provide essential stability after a mental health crisis. Matthew McWade explains how the same support can become difficult to leave—and why meaningful work, purpose, and risk can reopen the path to independence.

The Nocebo Effect: Can Fear and Negative Expectations Make Us Sicker? What happens when fear becomes part of the treatment environment? Can repeated warnings about disease, symptoms, danger, and uncertainty influence how people experience their own bodies? And where is the line between legitimate public-health communication and messaging that unintentionally—or deliberately—creates a harmful psychological environment? […]

Eric Kaufmann examines woke culture, political correctness, identity politics, cancel culture, universities, immigration, and the changing moral hierarchy shaping Western society.

What happens when a system designed to relieve psychological suffering begins to shape how suffering itself is defined? In his interview on the mental health industrial complex, clinical psychologist Eric Greene examines the assumptions, economic incentives, diagnostic categories, institutional pressures, and treatment models that shape modern mental health care. Greene’s argument is not simply that […]

Western Civilization Has a Confidence Problem What happens to a society when it becomes embarrassed by the civilization that produced its freedom, prosperity, institutions, and extraordinary technological achievements? That is the central question explored in this conversation with Dan Burmawi, whose life has taken him across cultures, religions, and political systems. Born in Jordan and […]

The history of the Zika outbreak in Brazil is often presented as a straightforward story: Zika virus spread through northeastern Brazil, pregnant women became infected, and a dramatic increase in babies diagnosed with microcephaly followed. But what happens when a physician who was working on the ground during the outbreak questions parts of that story? […]

Evidence-based medicine is supposed to help doctors make better decisions. But what happens when evidence becomes a slogan, peer review becomes a substitute for critical thinking, and professional authority is treated as proof? In a wide-ranging conversation about medicine, science, health policy, and the production of knowledge, physician and health-services outcomes researcher Anil Makam argues […]

George Gilder: The Prophet of Possibility What separates a genuine technological prophet from someone merely making predictions? For George Gilder, the answer is not the ability to see twenty years into the future. It is the ability to recognize possibility. For more than half a century, Gilder has moved between economics, technology, entrepreneurship, family structure, […]

Quantum Computing Is Finally Becoming Real For decades, quantum computing lived somewhere between mathematical theory, physics speculation and technological ambition. Today, that is changing. Small quantum devices exist. They can be programmed. They can manipulate qubits and perform operations that behave in ways predicted by quantum theory. The central challenge is no longer simply whether […]