We’re living in an age of technologically accelerated lookism. Those with the means can use GLP-1s to become ultra-slim; they can employ cosmetic surgery to reverse signs of aging, and to redesign their faces and bodies so that they reflect algorithmically adjudicated images of

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    A Nobel laureate’s pedophilia was an open secret among the scientific community. In this week’s issue, Rachel Aviv reports on his dark legacy.

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    In 1989, a group of Soviet scientists was summoned to a secluded village on Moscow’s periphery, to discuss a pioneering technique for mass murder. Experiments had begun to demonst…

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    Cartoons by Ellie Black, Hartley Lin, Matilda Borgström, and Asher Perlman. See more cartoons from the issue:

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    On May 17th, the director general of the World Health Organization declared the current Ebola outbreak a public-health emergency of international concern in the Democratic Republi…

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    “Dukes,” a new show by the “S.N.L.” cast member Jane Wickline and the comedian Liva Pierce, is playful, illuminating, and unpretentiously experimental, Emily Nussbaum writes.

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    “The progression to get to that shot was impactful for me personally,” the celebrity photographer Emily Shur said, about shooting Mike Gordon, the bassist for Phish, in a bathtub…

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