2018 in review: four fun and fundamental stories
Scientific breakthroughs of yesteryear
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Solving a quantum conundrum
Urmila Mahadev’s eight-year-long quest to solve the quantum verification problem as a grad student
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The Social Construction of the Sexed Body (Excerpt from “Against Bioessentialism and Towards Trans Liberation: A Polemic”)
Discussions of genitalia, reproduction, biosexism, bioessentialism, intersex genital mutilation
Wave-Particle Duality: An Interview with Nonbinary Physics Professor A. W. Peet
On gender, science, and the atmosphere of STEM academia
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Truth and impartiality in the news: Ideology, Centrism, and “Leftist Ideas”
“Neutrality” is never apolitical, and oppression is not political opinion
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Did climate change cause these hurricanes?
Tropical cyclones, climatology, and capitalism In the past few weeks, the damage resulting from Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma have been dominating headlines. Harvey was the first, moving along the south Caribbean before taking a turn by the Yucatan Peninsula and then becoming a Category 4 before making landfall in southern Texas. It was the
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The science of studying
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A brief review of 2016’s major scientific leaps
As this volume of The Strand comes to an end, let’s recap some of the biggest scientific events in the tumultuous year of 2016. GRAVITATIONAL WAVES Perhaps the biggest news out of physics in 2016, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory’s (LIGO for short) discovery of gravitational waves put to rest a 100-year old hypothesis from Einstein’s time and
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Humans may have helped create the Sahara Desert
From paleontological records to the earliest artistic depictions of the humans that lived there, the consensus is that the Sahara was once a wetter and more humid place, during the “African Humid Period.” So, what happened?
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Revolutionary Gene-editing Technique Has Its First Clinical Anti-Cancer Tests in Humans
As the world grows more complex, we see hopeful signs of progress in the field of gene-based medicinal therapy. In particular, the famous CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique has been gaining significant traction due to its simplicity and versatility. On October 28th, Dr. Lu You’s team at Sichuan University in Chengdu successfully implanted cells containing CRISPR-edited genes into a patient with lung cancer. While this may seem like a small step, it is a result with heavy implications for the future of biomedical research. Carl June, an immunotherapy specialist at the University of Pennsylvania, described the implications of this progress best, calling the possibility for an ensuing international duel in biomedical research “Sputnik 2.0.”
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