Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human… and a rat. Simply by thinking the appropriate thought, the BBI allows the human to control the rat’s tail. Here is a video of this experiment: This is exciting and scary at the same time. Are you ready for the […]

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In the “Justice” program that bears his name, Harvard professor Michael Sandel probes certain questions — and asks what you think, and why. As of fall 2009, some 14,000 Harvard students have taken Michael Sandel’s legendary course, “Justice.” His lectures draw a thousand-plus students eager to discuss big questions of modern political life: bioethics, torture, […]

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