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    Batteries Not Excluded The supercomputer in your pocket and your next car rely on them–so what will we do if we run out of lithium?

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    Fowl Plague

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    The Roots of an Epidemic

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    A Noxious Problem

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    Beats: Food

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    “Disable” is an active verb, and disability describes the social and environmental barriers that prevent access just as much as an individual body’s physical reality.

    Beats: Health

    Access to health care is as much a matter of public policy as it is the size of a person’s pocketbook; within a doctor’s office, many factors affect the quality of treatment.

    Chatbots Can Help Us Talk to Animals

    Could applying the Internet of Things to animals someday allow us to talk to them?
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    What Our Tech Ethics Crisis Says About the State of Computer Science Education

    The problem with “I’m just an engineer” isn’t the engineer’s inability to identify all relevant ethical implications–it’s that they don’t think it’s their job to do so.
    Casey Fiesler
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    Body Hacking Has a Place in Hospitals

    Instead of bedroom surgeons risking sepsis, medical researchers are using augmentation to make hospital wards more, not less, human.
    Andrew Williams
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