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Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters Building in Washington DC (Getty Images)

For the EPA, a moment of reckoning

Beth Clevenger - MIT Press Reader
Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914), French scholar, developed the criminal anthropometry. Self-portrait ID following his own methods made on August 7 1912, at the age of 59. (adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)

The troubling pursuit of human metrics

Jessica Helfand - MIT Press Reader
(The back cover of "Copy Art: The First Complete Guide to the Copy Machine," a 1978 how-to guide on copy art.)

How Britain used sex to sell computers

Mar Hicks - MIT Press Reader
A pro-Trump mob floods into the Capitol Building after breaking into it on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

How to escape the trap of tribalism

Philip Laughlin - MIT Press Reader
Donald Trump | Twitter Logo (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Twitter)

Cognitive bias and our post-truth era

Lee McIntyre - MIT Press Reader
(Getty/Justin Sullivan)

When objects become extensions of you

Michael J. Spivey - MIT Press Reader
People celebrate at Times Square in New York after Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2020 presidential election on November 7, 2020. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

The classification of humankind

Thomas Moynihan - MIT Press Reader
The Austrian-born Bernard Hollander favored a quantitative approach to phrenological diagnosis, and is shown here methodically measuring his own skull. His meticulous view of the critical role of cranial measurement mirrored Galton’s in its obsessive assessment of statistical averages. Image: Wellcome Collection. Bernard Hollander: Cranial Measurement (1902) (<a href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sqjvypsb">Wellcome Collection</a>. Bernard Hollander: Cranial Measurement (1902))

On the lasting legacy of eugenics

Jessica Helfand - MIT Press Reader
The "Women of Abstract Expressionism" Exhibit at the Denver Art Museum (Denver Art Museum)

Art museums will never be the same

David Joselit - MIT Press Reader
Foreign nationals are sworn-in as United States citizens during a naturalization ceremony at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. (Getty/Kevin Dietsch)

Citizenship: The extinguisher of hope

Dimitry Kochenov - MIT Press Reader
Donald Trump watching democracy burn (Getty Images/Salon)

Democracy is less broken than you think

Danny Oppenheimer, Mike Edwards - MIT Press Reader
(Nicole Young)

Symbolic use of barrier contraceptives

Donna J. Drucker - MIT Press Reader

COVID & the hunger industrial complex

Andrew Fisher - MIT Press Reader
Some of them are artful and literary. Some of them are weird. Many are sweet and thoughtful. (MIT Press Reader)

An essential guide to mobile games

Shira Chess - MIT Press Reader
(Getty/albln)

The shadow of a RFID looms large

Jordan Frith - MIT Press Reader
(Enzo Brandi/EyeEm/Getty Images)

Virtual explosions, blur of reality

Sherry Turkle - MIT Press Reader
(Guardiano5/Getty Images)

Pornography and sexual consent

Milena Popova - MIT Press Reader
(Getty Images)

Dreidel: The moral world in miniature

Eric Schwitzgebel - MIT Press Reader
(Getty/PeopleImages)

Grief, coping and internet searches

Elad Yom-Tom - MIT Press Reader
An image from Russell Trall's "The Hydropathic Encyclopedia" (1843)

Of Freud, therapeutics, and posture

Nathan Kravis - MIT Press Reader
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1335553p1.html'>pixinoo</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The fantasy of opting out

Finn Brunton, Helen Nissenbaum - MIT Press Reader
Dental X-ray of child's mouth. (Courtesy of Masrour Makaremi / MIT Press Reader)

The birth certificate in your mouth

Tanya M. Smith - MIT Press Reader
The aluminum industry helped to modernize warfare, and warfare helped to modernize the aluminum industry. (MIT Press Reader)

The alliance between aluminum & warfare

Mimi Sheller - MIT Press Reader
While it makes for a colorful analogy, comparing the brain to a muscle is inaccurate and misleading.

Can language learning prevent dementia?

Richard Roberts, Roger Kreuz - MIT Press Reader
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