Employees at a highly valued Silicon Valley startup are saying the company has a brutish CEO who has humiliated them and fired people right before their stock options vested, according to an explosive exposé of Tanium by Bloomberg's Lizette Chapman and Sarah McBride. Orion Hindawi is the CEO of Tanium, a startup he created with his father a decade ago. Today it is one of the highest-valued security startups in the tech industry. It raised $287 million of venture investment at a valuation of $3.7 billion, much of that coming from the VC powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz.

Ancient DNA researchers have learned to collaborate with American Indian tribes in relevant cases. But still more sensitivity is needed.

Cast your mind back over the past week. How many times were you tempted to act dishonestly? Perhaps you were given too much change… By Neil Garrett.

Imagine finding out your father wasn’t the man you thought he was. Imagine finding out he was your mother’s fertility doctor. By Alison Motluk.

What would you do if your child was a heroin addict suffering from acute withdrawal symptoms?

Are you surrounded by fools? Are you the only reasonable person around? Then maybe you’re the one with the jerkitude. By Eric Schwitzgebel.

Effort to grow organs stirs debate over ethics of human-animal chimeras. By Antonio Regalado.

Studies led by researchers at VU Amsterdam suggest that the path to corrupt behavior may sometimes be a steep cliff instead of a slippery slope, contrary to popular belief.

From the viewpoint of classic conditioning theory, this kind of hedonic flip-flop doesn’t make much sense.

Except within the small Muslim and orthodox Jewish communities, people in Denmark wonder why on Earth any parents would want to have their precious newborn child held down to have a part of his healthy, yet immature, penis cut off.

Parfit isn’t a household name, but his ideas were profound. By Dylan Matthews.

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When they were separated by Heisenberg’s scientific travels or the war itself, Elisabeth and Werner exchanged more than three hundred letters that survived the fighting. Both later wrote accounts of the war years, but their letters, filled with the worries and hopes of ordinary family life, offer a quieter, more intimate picture of the years when Heisenberg ran the program that was going nowhere. Husband and wife both knew that the German secret police were free to open and read their letters at will, and tried to avoid dangerous ground. By Thomas Powers.

“Does an act reflect a person’s character, or is it the product of disease, addiction, exhaustion, desperation or disability? Establishing mens rea, the extent to which a crime is the result of a ‘guilty mind’, is not the test of moral responsibility, but a crucial step towards establishing the threat posed by a person, and the most constructive response to his or her actions.” By Raoul Martinez.

Like any good, vaguely sinister spy outfitter, Cellebrite deflects questions about whether it would sell its phone-breaching tools to a repressive regime. By Sam Biddle, Fahad Desmukh.

How Great Man theory allows us to abdicate collective responsibility. By Megan Carpentier.

Maybe you think neuroscience has a peaceable history of benign efforts to improve lives and enhance human capacities. But its origins and development tell a different story – with ethical implications. By Alison Howell.

We can think of ourselves as an animal’s peer—or its protector. What will robots decide about us? Harambe, a gorilla, was described as “smart,” “curious,” “courageous,” “magnificent.” But it wasn’t until last spring that Harambe became famous, too. On May 28th, a human boy, also curious and courageous, slipped through a fence at the Cincinnati Zoo and landed in the moat along the habitat that Harambe shared with two other gorillas.

Fifteen Rules for Living a Self-Reliant, Honest & Compassionate Life. By Ayun Halliday.

Earlier this week, a post written by programmer and teacher Bill Sourour went viral. It's called "Code I’m Still Ashamed Of." In it he recounts a horrible story of being a young programmer who landed a job building a website for a pharmaceutical company. The whole post is worth a read, but the upshot is he was duped into helping the company skirt drug advertising laws in order to persuade young women to take a particular drug.