Steven Bedard, a former field biologist, travels around Bangladesh with a team of public health investigators studying Nipah, a bat-borne virus with the potential to become the next pandemic.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Books, Nonfiction, Reading List, Writing
8 Longreads by Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling
Eight must-read stories that investigate science, belief, and the human impulse to tell stories.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Highlight, Story
In Absentia
A meditation on the nature of grief, at a time when the whole world seems to be grieving.
Posted inNonfiction
On Vanishing
Dementia is a kind of erasure, a death before death, where the living discount the infirmed long before they’re gone.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Why African-American Doctors are Choosing to Study Medicine in Cuba
Anakwa Dwamena explores the influence of the Latin American School of Medicine, or E.L.A.M, Cuba’s international medical school, which actively recruits talented undergraduates from the United States.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Gene Therapy: God Discusses Its Future Possibilities
Unraveling the potential of the double helix could render many of our current medical modalities laughable.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
Somewhere Under My Left Ribs: A Nurse’s Story
The landscape of operating theaters must be terrifying for patients, but it’s becoming normal for me. It’s amazing what you can get used to.
Posted inReading List
Women and Pain: A Reading List
“…how do we begin to change the narrative of how women’s pain is perceived, understood, and treated?”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Story
How to Survive a Vivisection
After a traumatic experience with childbirth, Rachel Somerstein struggles to bond with her newborn daughter.
Posted inBusiness, Current Events, Story
Nurses, Unite!
What nurses’ unions can teach the Democratic Party.
