The dark side of DNA editing
Genetic engineering can lead to great medical advances but, as Matthew Cobb’s new book shows, it also brings alarming ethical…
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Why Annie Ernaux deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature
With clinical precision and revelatory intimacy, the French memoirist reinvigorated the art of life-writing.
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Why this year’s Nobel Prize marks a revolution in economic thought
For the first time in the history of economics, economists are able to monetise their own theoretical innovations.
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How Nobel Prize-winner Richard Thaler gave free-market dogma a makeover
Humans do not always make rational choices.
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