Issue #58: August/September 2017 Magazine Previous Issues Primer Research Gone Wild The Myth Behind Painkilling Lettuce Some doctors' manuals from the 19th century do list Lactuca virosa as a pain reliever, but there's little evidence that it works. Francie Diep
Social Justice How to Regulate Home-Brewed Opiates Genetically engineered yeast will soon be able to make morphine from sugar. Tech policy experts fear a generation of Walter Whites. Kate Wheeling
Environment Meet the Croppies Who are the true believers in crop circles? And might they be on to something? Katie Heaney