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Policymakers Should Set Genetic Testing Free

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The FDA has banned 23andMe from selling its personal genetic testing kits. But consumers should know the truth about themselves—and so policymakers should set the company free. One would think in an age where everyone is required to have health insurance that we’d want to get the best information about our health as possible. Then,…

“With the disappearance of paper encyclopedias, a part of the Western intellectual tradition is disappearing as well,”

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March 20, 2012 Knowledge is a property of the network: Mapping Britannica’s world in a Wikipedia age  Matthew Battles argues that the nature of knowledge is changing in the context of networks. By Matthew Battles Email At The New Republic, David A. Bell offers a wistful threnody for the paper edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica,…