Western documentaries tend to rely upon the dual tropes of white saviorism and white sympathy to offer single approaches to complex interconnected cultural issues. This results in two-dimensional solutions to problems like climate change...
Author - StephanCho
On November 15, 2020, NASA and SpaceX partnered to launch a six-month science mission on the International Space Station. Despite the ravages of COVID-19, NASA's collaboration with this brainchild of Elon Musk, himself a product of an...
150 years ago, on March 18, 1871, the poor and working class of Paris — referred to dismissively by contemporary French officialdom as “the vile multitude” — rose in rebellion. They disarmed the existing national guard and armed the...
Along with genetics and genomics, the neurosciences currently share the dubious honor of being considered able to enlighten us on fundamental questions of human existence. One of these questions is the issue of sex/gender—in science, this...
The global COVID-19 pandemic has put enormous strain on the US healthcare system. This strain has underscored racial inequity in the allocation of healthcare resources, including public health infrastructure vital to pandemic response, and...
I first heard Professor Sir Michael Marmot speak at a Students for Global Health event at the University of Cambridge. He described how life expectancy is no longer increasing in the UK and the US, and that it is in fact declining for...
Recent waves of Black Lives Matter uprisings amid the COVID-19 pandemic have again touched off a broad cultural reckoning with racism and white supremacy. The uprisings have also trained a spotlight on police practices and the social...
The decarbonization of buildings has the potential of cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions about 30 percent in the United States. At minimum, to meet the Paris Agreement’s commitment of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, all...
After years of struggling to uncover the genetic basis of complex diseases, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were heralded as a revolution in human genetics. GWAS look for genetic differences in a population to correlate with disease...
Before Tina Stevens and Stuart Newman wrote Biotech Juggernaut, Newman helped Stevens fight legal action from an unexpectedly powerful adversary. Two scientists and the financer-author of Proposition 71, a 2004 California state initiative...