Technology

What Japan’s automats portend for American restaurant chains

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An anthropological dispatch from the landfill dig to unearth Atari’s E.T.

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Why has Google added the Grand Canyon to Street View?

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Alan Lightman on the theory of everything, technology as mediator of human experience, and empathizing with the religious impulse

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A study in forced neutrality

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President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor, a Bronx-born, divorced, childless, diabetic, Hispanic federal judge on the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to replace Justice David Souter on…

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Caught in the Web, 1860. The Department of Justice released four Office of Legal Counsel memos, issued in 2002 and 2005, to address CIA concerns that interrogation methods used on…

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Doctors in Berlin announced that they had cured a man of AIDS by giving him transplanted blood stem cells from a donor naturally resistant to the virus; other researchers cautioned…

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Israel, a few days before Yom Kippur, declared that the Gaza Strip is now a “hostile entity,” and the office of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (who is under investigation for…

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