Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire. Also: AI in humanistic research and teaching.
Historian of science, medicine, technology, drugs, and culture at UCSC.
A psychiatrist in recovery explores the addictions in all of us, integrating science, philosophy, and the art of flourishing in recovery. Columbia University bioethicist, author of THE URGE: OUR HISTORY OF ADDICTION, a New Yorker Best Book of 2022.
This is a newsletter about drugs, history, and the endlessly fascinating interaction of the two.
Topics include the societal impacts of AI, human rights implications of surveillance technologies, consumer privacy and data protection, social media governance, and more.