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Elijah Wolfson
Senior Editor, Newsweek
Elijah Wolfson is a senior editor at Newsweek, where he writes and edits stories on science, health, technology, and culture. He is also a contributor to, among others, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera America, Vice, and the Huffington Post, and has appeared on MSNBC, BBC World News, NPR, and more. Wolfson was a 2013-2014 Langeloth Health Journalism Fellow at the John Jay College Center on Media, Crime, and Justice; a 2015 International Reporting Program Fellow; and a 2015 Metcalf Institute Fellow. He was awarded a 2015 Population Institute Global Media Award for his reporting on the relationship between climate change and access to family planning in developing countries.
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Artificial limbs are familiar devices to replace body parts lost to injury or illness, but brain implants that can command those limbs to work represent a revolutionary advanc...