SCIENCE
The Ethics of a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified many aspects of our society and opened them up to scrutiny. It has exposed the good, such as our ability to band together in the face of a common foe; our desire to volunteer our time to help those in need; and our willingness to ...
Losing faith
The COVID-19 pandemic that swept across the globe this year is the defining event of a generation. To say that the disease has taken a toll would be a ludicrous understatement; with medical treatment under-available, entire economies in lockdown, and a mental health crisis raging quietly beneath it all, the ...
There’s more to gain from face time than FaceTime
And why we should get off our damn phones already
Climate Count-Up: #47 Bioplastics
Taking a look at Project Drawdown’s solutions to climate change
From individuals to communities
Towards an ecological understanding of health
Love potion #9: a (neurochemical) recipe
The secret ingredient required to make a love potion isn’t eye of newt or pixie dust
Coronavirus: fact versus fiction
The outbreak of a new coronavirus has sent panic rippling across the world at speeds far faster than the actual virus travels. If this is somehow the first exposé you’ve encountered, “coronavirus” is the somewhat-misleading name now commonly used to refer to the 2019 novel coronavirus (or 2019-nCoV, for short), ...
Sexual compatibility made easy
Finding a partner as a fungus with 28,000 different sexes
Let’s talk about (genetic) sex
“In Urdu, the only language she knew, all things, not just living things but all things—carpets, clothes, books, pens, musical instruments—had a gender. Everything was masculine or feminine, man or woman. Everything except her baby. Yes of course she knew there was a word for those like him—Hijra. Two words ...
Climate Count-Up: #4 Plant-rich diets
Taking a look at Project Drawdown’s solutions to climate change