Science in the Spectacle
On Monday, September 22nd, millions of Americans tuned in to watch our nation’s leaders announce a correlation between the common pain reliever acetaminophen (Tylenol) and autism. As no…
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‘I’m gonna O.J. you’: How the Simpson case changed perceptions — and the law — on domestic violence
It wasn’t long after the televised spectacle of O.J. Simpson fleeing a phalanx of police cars in a slow-moving white Ford Bronco on June 17, 1994, that batterers…
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Milk Has Lost All Meaning
You overhear a lot of strange things in coffee shops, but an order for an “almond-based dairy-alternative cappuccino” is not one of them. Ditto a “soy-beverage macchiato” or…
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The Future of Long COVID
In the early spring of 2020, the condition we now call long COVID didn’t have a name, much less a large community of patient advocates. For the most…
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How Worried Should We Be About XBB.1.5?
After months and months of SARS-CoV-2 subvariant soup, one ingredient has emerged in the United States with a flavor pungent enough to overwhelm the rest: XBB.1.5, an Omicron…
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