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The joys of brain scrubbing: the advantages of memory deletion in a collectively omniscient world
THE LAB RAT'S lot wasn't easy to begin with, but now it may get worse. At the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, researchers have...
Reason, 07/01/09 by Greg Beato · More from publication -
Barter country: as the economy suffers, a nation turns toward cashless transactions
YOU MAY HAVE lost your shirt in the market, but chances are you have a few dozen more in your closet, half of which you haven't worn since the...
Reason, 06/01/09 by Greg Beato · More from publication -
I'm so bored with the NEA: artists demand "stimulus" subsidies
IN THIS LONG season of bailouts and federally administered stimuli, with seemingly every starving investment banker pleading to Congress that...
Reason, 05/01/09 by Greg Beato · More from publication -
Criminal Verite: mug shots—funny and unusual punishment
MURDER RATES HAVE dropped during the last decade. Same with rape, robbery, assault, burglary, and theft. Yet somehow we're in the midst of the...
Reason, 04/01/09 by Greg Beato · More from publication -
Draft Dodgers: for DIY brewers, prohibition lasted until 1978. But once unleashed, they revolutionized the industry
FOR CONNOISSEURS of Budweiser, the 1970s were a pale golden age. In every supermarket across the land, the King of Beers maintained its status as...
Reason, 03/01/09 by Greg Beato · More from publication -
The successories president: the posterized secret of Obama's success?
ON THAT HISTORIC evening in November, as Barack Obama definitively made passe the notion that we cannot, the president-elect's acceptance speech...
Reason, 02/01/09 by Greg Beato · More from publication -
Thank you, your honor, may I have another? The stubbornly seductive perils of justice porn
OK, LET'S SEE, there's Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown, Judge Cristina, Judge Milian, Judge Hatchett, Judge Mathis, that crazy guy who uses a baseball...
Reason, 01/01/09 by Greg Beato · More from publication -
The spin we love to hate: do we really want news without a point of view?
A SIDE FROM young Arab males who enjoy wearing bulky sweaters on transcontinental flights, is there any entity that attracts greater scrutiny these...
Reason, 12/01/08 by Greg Beato · More from publication -
Garden gnome politics: the age-old battle over landscape expression
RECONNOITER A FEW suburban subdivisions these days, and it'll be clearer than ever that there are two Americas. One decorates its front yards with...
Reason, 11/01/08 by Greg Beato · More from publication -
Man's best friend forever: cloning dogs for love and profit
"ARE THEY all related?" a woman asks as she watches three puppies romp around Eastwood Park, a little slice of doggy heaven in Mill Valley,...
Reason, 10/01/08 by Greg Beato · More from publication
