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The TED logo stands illuminated on stage in the Community Theater in Vancouver, Canada. (Lawrence Sumulong/Getty Images)

The cult of expertise comes for Buddhism

Curtis White
Blurred emergency in hospital (Getty Images/vm)

When an ER doctor becomes an ER patient

Jay Baruch
Galapagos Tortoise (Getty Images/Mark Newman)

Animals hold the key to ultra-longevity

Steven N. Austad
Aerial view, looking northwest, across part of NASA's Manned Space Center (later renamed the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center) campus, Houston, Texas, 1960s. (NASA/Interim Archives/Getty Images)

"Cambridge, we have a problem"

Robert Buderi
Pr. Mildred Dresselhaus with an ultra high vacuum surface analysis system for imaging and characterizing thin film organic and inorganic materials and devices in the soft semiconductor lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mildred Dresselhaus, USA, LOreal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science, 2007 Laureate for North America, 'For her research on solid state materials, including conceptualizing the creation of carbon nanotubes'. (Micheline PELLETIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

The remarkable life of a nanotech queen

Maia Weinstock
Lady on smartphone in bed (Getty Images/Sergey Mironov)

The TikTok time bomb

Jen Lyons, Sierra Kaul, Marcelle Levine Swinburne, Vikki Vasquez, Gavin Kelley
CERN (European Organization For Nuclear Research) (Luis Davilla/Cover/Getty Images)

Is science stuck?

Michael Bhaskar
Medical professional at reception with patients waiting in lobby at hospital (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez)

COVID aside, human health is improving

Sandro Galea
"Stuck Nation: Can the United States Change Course on Our History of Choosing Profits Over People?" by Bob Hennelly (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Democracy at Work)

Welcome to "Stuck Nation": America now

Bob Hennelly
Exxon Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lee Raymond (C) and Vice Chairman Lucio Noto, circa 01 December, 1999. (HENNY RAY ABRAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Manufacturing climate change denialism

Andreas Malm, The Zetkin Collective
Philosopher Michel Foucault (Sophie Bassouls/Sygma via Getty Images)

Foucault's history-changing LSD trip

Mitchell Dean, Daniel Zamora
No Leg Room On Airplane (Getty Images)

There's no "right to recline"

Michael Heller, James Salzman
Dr. Jonas Salk stands in the University of Pittsburgh laboratory in which he developed a vaccine for polio. | Dr. Albert Bruce Sabin, of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, holds a vial containing a newly developed oral polio vaccine. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The vaccine debate from 1961

Arup K. Chakraborty, Andrey S. Shaw
A protester holds an anti-vaccination sign as supporters of President Donald Trump rally to reopen California as the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen, on May 16, 2020 in Woodland Hills, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Inside the mind of an anti-vaxxer

Jonathan Berman
The world is shattered by the coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images/Salon)

Can you live well in a dying world?

Curtis White
At the 1944 Democratic National Convention, delegates show support for the current Vice-President, Henry A. Wallace (Getty Images)

The decay of the Democrats

John Nichols
Hundreds of indigenous Hondurans and peasants march on August 17, 2016 in Tegucigalpa in Tegucigalpa demanding justice for the murder of indigenous environementalist Berta Caceres last July. (ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images)

The legacy of an indigenous resister

Nina Lakhani
Laboratory glassware (Getty Images)

How glass drove scientific progress

Ainissa Ramirez
A medical worker of Yao ethnic medicine performs acupuncture on the neck of a COVID-19 patient in a hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Wednesday, March 11, 2020. The Chinese health authority has encouraged the usage of traditional Chinese medicine on patients after the outbreak. (Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

What Chinese doctors know about COVID-19

Wang Zhou, MD
American author of science fiction Isaac Asimov (Getty Images/Salon)

Isaac Asimov's invention of the robot

Terri Favro
Vietnam War Protesters in front of White House, Washington, D.C., USA, photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, August 1965. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

From a Vietnam protest to prison

Emily L. Quint Freeman
Shawn Wallace and Noam Chomsky (Getty Images/Salon)

Chomsky: Fight hopelessness, save the US

Noam Chomsky, Wallace Shawn
Democratic presidential hopeful Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders arrives to speak at a Primary Night event at the SNHU Field House in Manchester, New Hampshire on February 11, 2020. - Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire's crucial Democratic primary, beating moderate rivals Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar in the race to challenge President Donald Trump for the White House, US networks projected. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Sanders is the beginning of a left turn

Meagan Day, Micah Uetricht
Donald Trump (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

How conservatism can turn into fascism

Yale R. Magrass, Charles Derber
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