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Ross Andersen is a senior editor at The Atlantic where he oversees the Science, Health and Technology sections. He was formerly the deputy editor of Aeon.

Nancy Uddin is a native New Yorker, Muslim writer, and cultural strategist with projects across media, tech, and spirituality. Her writing has appeared in DAZED, Vogue and HuffPost, among others.

Chrysanthi Blithikioti is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of General Psychology at the University of Padova in Italy, specialising in psychology and neuroscience. Her work focuses on ...

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Yiran Hua is a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.