What Does GINA Protect? Six Myths About Your Genetic Information
GINA blocks health insurers and most employers from using genetic information against you, but it skips life, disability and long-term care insurance and small employers….
Peter Kalafatis
Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? The Science Slowdown Debate
Research effort has grown enormously while output per researcher has fallen. Is that depletion, the burden of knowledge, or bad yardsticks?
Can Police Search Your Phone? What the Supreme Court Cases Say
Police generally need a warrant to search your phone. See what Riley, Carpenter and the June 2026 Chatrie decision say, and where the border and…
Is Human Germline Gene Editing Legal? The Rules After He Jiankui
No country explicitly permits heritable genome editing, but the bans come as treaties, crimes, licences and a US budget rider. This piece compares them and…
GDPR vs CCPA: What Each Law Gives You and Who It Covers
GDPR requires a legal reason before your data is used; California’s CCPA lets you opt out and delete. Here is who each covers, the fines,…
Validated, Not Confirmed: The Track Record of Statistically Validated Exoplanets
Of 3,028 exoplanets validated by statistics rather than weighed, 21 were later overturned. Within the scenarios validation models, the record matches the stated odds. Outside…
Why a Hot Inflation Report Shook AI Stocks Around the World
In the news: tech shares fell from Seoul to Frankfurt after a strong US inflation report revived doubts about the cost of financing the AI…
Is Evolution Predictable? Replaying the Tape of Life, Gould to Lenski
Gould said a replay of life’s tape would produce a different world. Experiments since then show both contingency and repeatability; this article weighs the evidence…
What Is Section 230 and What Does It Actually Protect?
Section 230 stops most lawsuits that treat a website as the publisher of user posts. Here is what it covers, its exceptions, and the 2026…
Panpsychism Combination Problem: Can Tiny Experiences Make a Mind?
If electrons have experiences, how do they add up to one person? This article maps the leading answers to the combination problem and shows where…