June 5, 2024
Culture
April 5, 2024
FDA to Drop Ban on Sperm Donations from Gay and Bisexual Men
(Wall Street Journal) – The Food and Drug Administration is making plans to significantly expand the number of gay and bisexual men who could donate sperm anonymously. Longstanding agency rules ban anonymous sperm donations by men who acknowledged having sex … Read More
March 8, 2024
Female Genital Cutting Continues to Increase Worldwide
(New York Times) – More than 230 million women and girls around the world have undergone female genital cutting, according to a new analysis by UNICEF, an increase of 30 million since the organization’s last global estimate in 2016. While … Read More
March 4, 2024
Barbie vs. Botox
(The New Atlantis) – Transhumanism is so over. Wrinkles are so back. Young women’s social media feeds are flooded with plugs for Botox. By our early twenties, modernity is already dangling opportunities in front of us to flee from a … Read More
February 28, 2024
What Luddites Can Teach Us About Resisting an Automated Future
(MIT Technology Review) – Opposing technology isn’t antithetical to progress. See illustrated story here.
February 21, 2024
Can Myth Teach Us Anything About the Race to Build Artificial General Intelligence?
(Center for Humane Technology) – We usually talk about tech in terms of economics or policy, but the casual language tech leaders often use to describe AI — summoning an inanimate force with the powers of code — sounds more… … Read More
February 19, 2024
Europe Faces Loneliness Epidemic Head-On
(Medscape) – How big is the problem? According to the first-ever European Union (EU)–wide survey on loneliness, EU-LS 2022, conducted by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), around 13% of 20,000 respondents reported feeling lonely most or all of the time … Read More
February 12, 2024
How Do You Live While Your Brother Is Dying? ‘Suncoast’ Is a Teen Take on Hospice
(NPR) – A new film streaming on Hulu considers a subject that’s sometimes in the news, but not often in entertainment: hospice end-of-life care. Suncoast is writer-director Laura Chinn’s fictional account of her life in the early 2000s as a … Read More
December 18, 2023
In the Age of AI, Her Is a Fairy Tale
(Wired) – When Spike Jonze’s Her came out in 2013, the film about a lonely man falling for an artificially intelligent operating system won widespread praise. Watching today, the qualities critics celebrated at the time are still there—it’s a gentle, … Read More
December 6, 2023
The New England Journal of Medicine Kicks Off a Historical Series Looking at Its Troubled Past
(Science) – The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is launching a new series today examining its own complicity in perpetuating slavery and its legacy in the United States. In doing so, the 211-year-old journal joins several other publications and … Read More
December 4, 2023
How Millennials Learned to Dread Motherhood
(Vox) – Uncertainty is normal. Becoming a parent is a life-changing decision, after all. But this moment is unlike any women have faced before. Today, the question of whether to have kids generates anxiety far more intense than your garden-variety … Read More
November 16, 2023
Are Selfie-Related Deaths a Public Health Issue?
(MedPage Today) – In some tragic instances, taking a selfie for social media can be fatal. A study by Australian researchers, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, makes the bold claim that such selfie-related deaths — particularly falls … Read More
November 7, 2023
‘Aging is a disease’: Inside the drive to postpone death indefinitely
(Washington Post) – Longevity has become an industry, a subject of bestsellers, podcasts and newsletters. But is a life meted out in metrics, often for a price, worth it? (Read More)
November 6, 2023
‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ Review: A Story of Paralysis Takes Flight
(Wall Street Journal) – ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” by Joby Talbot and Gene Scheer, which had its world premiere at the Dallas Opera on Friday, would seem to have the most improbable operatic subject imaginable. It is based … Read More
November 3, 2023
‘We’re Sedating Women with Self-Care’: How We Became Obsessed with Wellness
(The Guardian) – Raphael takes her reasoning a step further and argues that wellness has become a new form of faith. As organized religion has retreated from everyday life, she argues, wellness has rushed in to fill the void. “It’s … Read More
October 31, 2023
Is It Wrong to Cure Blindness?
October 23, 2023
New Infertility Definition a “Game-Changer” for Hopeful LGBTQ+ Parents
October 11, 2023
The Nation’s Obsession with True Crime Meets a Mother’s Grief
September 19, 2023
More Than Pink
September 14, 2023
The ‘Hispanic Paradox’ Intrigues a New Generation of Researchers Determined to Unravel It
July 24, 2023
The Bulletin Reviews ‘Oppenheimer’
June 1, 2023
Longevity enthusiasts want to create their own independent state. They’re eyeing Rhode Island.
June 1, 2023
Eating Disorder Helpline Disables Chatbot for ‘Harmful’ Responses After Firing Human Staff
May 16, 2023
The Pandemic Didn’t Really Change How Americans Think About Sickness
March 30, 2023
