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Thursday, October 24, 2024

Best American Science and Nature Writing

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Thursday, October 17, 2024

Jennifer Doudna on gene-editing

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The biochemist Jennifer Doudna—who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in 2020—reveals a few books that she thinks best equip one to understan...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

A teaching hospital

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Monday, October 7, 2024

I’m a Doctor. ChatGPT’s Bedside Manner Is Better Than Mine.

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As a young, idealistic medical student in the 2000s, I thought my future job as a doctor would always be safe from artificial intelligence. ...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Medical Gaslighting

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By Ilana Jacqueline Narrated by Lori Prince Listen on Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DFMX44S4?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&...
Monday, September 30, 2024

How the World Eats

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Sunday, September 29, 2024

Anti-Aging Enthusiasts Are Taking a Pill to Extend Their Lives. Will It Work?

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… "Let's see, taking something that's risky, that's going to have no benefits?" Dr. Dillin said. "I'll pass....
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Climate & health

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The climate crisis is a health crisis. The most effective action to slow and reverse ClimateChange is transitioning to renewable energy ...
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Something’s Poisoning America’s Land. Farmers Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals.

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For decades, farmers across America have been encouraged by the federal government to spread municipal sewage on millions of acres of farmla...
Saturday, August 24, 2024

No, Lyme disease is not an escaped military bioweapon, despite what conspiracy theorists say - The Washington Post

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/no-lyme-diease-is-not-an-escaped-military-bioweapon-despite-what-conspiracy-theorists-say/2019/08/09/5...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Reasonable expectations (for a centenarian)

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Maria Branyas Morera, World's Oldest Person, Dies at 117 Ms. Morera, who cultivated a following on social media as "Super Catalan G...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

We’re Applying Lessons From Covid to Bird Flu. That’s Not Good.

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…Undeniably, the country is in a different place regarding the risks from Covid than it was two or three or four years ago, and it is perfec...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

A Prescription for Physicians: Listen to the Patient’s Story

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In "Telltale Hearts," a new memoir, Dr. Dean-David Schillinger traces the links between narrative and well-being. ...One of the ch...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Into the Heart of Life: Richard Powers on Living with Bewilderment at the Otherworldly Wonder of Our World – The Marginalian

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Maria Popova again has me thinking this (like its predecessor "Overstory") would be a good text for Environmental Ethics. Bioethic...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Unethical?

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Would You Clone Your Dog? by Alexandra Horowitz https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/01/would-you-clone-your-dog
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Atul Gawande on finding meaning in mortality

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On Mortality and Meaning by The On Being Project The eighth episode in our Wisdom Season Read on Substack
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Not enough rocks?

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Google Is Using A.I. to Answer Your Health Questions. Should You Trust It? …The system has already been shown to produce  bad answers  seemi...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

On Call

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Dr. Fauci's book describes trying to build a government response to Covid "with a president who literally did not understand what w...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Pandemic lit

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The growing body of literature about the pandemic "radiates a desire to be useful, somehow, and a sense that perhaps fiction can give p...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

How Do We Know What Animals Are Really Feeling?

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Animal-welfare science tries to get inside the minds of a huge range of species — in order to help improve their lives. "...a true ethi...