Can You Become Un-Autistic?
You could read this as a straightforward narrative of medical recovery. Or you could read…
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Is It OK To Use a Cellphone in Church? Pew Surveys the New Etiquette
The Pew Research Center has pubished a new report on cellphone etiquette. If you’ve ever wondered whether…
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Why Science Needs “Neurodiversity,” Autism Included
New York Times science columnist George Johnson had the epistemological grumps last week, about what…
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The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans
The following essay contains some minor spoilers. – eds. Imagine a world where robots look,…
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“As Orthodox As They Come”: A Backstage Conversation With Rob Bell
Rob Bell is on the move. In 1998, as a 28-year-old evangelical pastor in Michigan,…
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The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism
In The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, the Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo offers…
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HitchBot Meets His Maker: What a Robot’s Murder Tells Us About Ourselves
A friendly robot Is murdered in the City of Brotherly Love.
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It’s Still Your Fault: The Cubit’s Guide to Blaming
For the past three weeks, The Cubit has explored blame in the twenty-first century. We…
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Justice v. Revenge: The Question Beneath the Question of Prison Reform
This article is part of It’s Your Fault, The Cubit’s series on blame in contemporary…
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Greece Must Suffer for Redemption: A Nietzschean Reading
European negotiations over the Greek debt crisis have taken a series of bewildering turns in…
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