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by Mark Lilla,

From Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know, which will be published in December by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Among the recent discoveries of neuroscience is that radical self-delusion…

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by Arno Kopecky,

The World Health Organization warned that outbreaks of cholera and dysentery resulting from a lack of clean drinking water could easily double the number of people killed by the Indian…

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by Paul Ford,

Weighing the soul, 1875. A suicide bomber set off a bomb at a mess tent on a U.S. base in Mosul, killing 22 and wounding 69. Among the dead were…

An American cattleman. In response to the mad-cow crisis, the United States Department of Agriculture banned the human consumption of cow brains, skulls, spinal cords, vertebral columns, eyes, and nerve…

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