In an attempt to understand her own chronic pain, Diana Whitney uncovers a violent trauma from her mother’s past.
Epigenetics
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The Killer Who Spared My Mother
In an attempt to understand her own chronic pain, Diana Whitney uncovers a violent trauma from her mother’s past.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Killer Who Spared My Mother
In an attempt to understand her own chronic pain, Diana Whitney uncovers a violent trauma from her mother’s past.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction
In Praise of Cowardice
Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.
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Unlocking the Genetic Code of Poverty
The emerging science of epigenetics argues that poverty can change our genetic expression.
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Why Poverty Is Like a Disease
The emerging science of epigenetics takes the concepts of “meritocracy” and “pulling yourself up by the bootstraps” to task.