The commissions are coming. Hurricane season hasn’t ended, but forensics waits for no one, so the after-action reports on Harvey and Irma have to get started. The relevant agencies—local and perhaps federal, plus maybe some national academies and disaster responders—will all no doubt look at themselves and others to see what went right or wrong.

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What if America Had a Detective Agency for Disasters?

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An unprecedented look at dopamine in the brain reveals that psychosis drugs get developed with the wrong neurons in mind.
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A prosthetic arm that connects directly to the nervous system gives the user fine control over the motions of individual fingers—just by thinking and trying to move.
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What if America Had a Detective Agency for Disasters?

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