Policy & Ethics

Join host Cameron English, Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and Dr. Barbara Pfeffer Billauer as they break down these stories on Episode 51 of the Science Dispatch podcast:

One recent provocative article advocates that the availability of new baby-making technologies should catalyze revisiting whether “biologism” – the prioritization o

In November 2020, voters in Oregon approved Measure 110, which effectively decriminalized the possession of federally i

Join host Cameron English, Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and Dr. Barbara Pfeffer Billauer as they break down these stories on Episode 50 of the Science Dispatch podcast:

Which is worse? A or B? A: "You've come a long way, baby To get where you've got to today You've got your own cigarette now, baby You've come a long, long way."

Laws based on roadside saliva tests for drug-impaired driving, especially for marijuana, are quietly being implemented in state legislatures across the

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The District of Columbia Department of Health recently posted a message on “X” to get residents to abandon nicotine e‑cigarettes. The message stated:

Just when you thought that the DEA was planning on implanting microchips in our cerebral cortexes to record every time we swallowed a Lomotil, 

Hardly a day passes without a report of some new, startling application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the quest to build machines that can reason, learn, and act intelligently.