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January/February 2009

paris

Rising or falling birthrates are changing the religious populations of Europe and the Middle East. A look at how women's wombs have become "a biological weapon."
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circumcision

Twelve hundred years ago, foreskins became big business. Recent news suggests they're making a comeback, and not in the area of the body one might expect.
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  • Getting Computers to Think Like Us
    Computer scientists have written software that can fool humans.


  • Mystics Under the Microscope
    Is there such a thing as a core, common mystical experience?
  • Reinterpreting the Origin of Life
    A new look at one of the most famous and revolutionary experiments in science history.
  • Visions of Birmingham
    They come for a visionary's healing. The visionary came for the nephrology center.
  • The Beef with Beef
    Beef makes people who care about food—and its ethical implications—feel better.
  • Reading the Wounds
    The doctors who treat torture victims find that the stories run deeper than the scars.
  • Inconstant Flux
    What happens when the fixed laws of the universe change? (Plus, read about the quirky history of "inconstants".)
  • Changing Our Minds
    Can meditation clear the fog of war? Doctors and veterans find out.
  • "On God": Unheavenly Bodies
    The more coherent the cosmos becomes, the less imperiously whimsical.
  • Plasticize Me
    Will advances in human tissue preservation change how we think about bodies, death, god ... and China?
  • Down in the Valley
    The "uncanny valley" may dictate how humans evolve in the future.
  • Praying for Ice
    Global warming and terrorism threaten a 900-year-old Hindu pilgramage.

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