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Every day we are assaulted by scientific or biomedical questions that we don’t even know how to think about, from toxic wastes and “Star Wars” and nuclear energy to acid rain and gene splicing and surrogate motherhood. Many of them are the legacy of scientists who now admit that they didn’t understand how their decisions would affect the quality of
... See moreWilliam Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
In examining broad health interventions, however, recognizing the impact of these larger factors is critical. What might be dismissed as a factor to control in a biomedical experiment, such as the presence of a family support system, is often a fundamental facet of the intervention from a complex systems perspective. As Garrett Hardin, ecologist an
... See moreElizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
“PULLMAN PORTER LECTURES: Ford Makes a Hit in an Address to Students at Dartmouth.” The Times continued to report on my grandfather in its April 13 issue of that year: “PULLMAN PORTER WINS AS COLLEGE LECTURER; John Baptist Ford, Who Made Four Hundred Dartmouth Students Look at His Profession with New Eyes, Talks of Traveling Public.”
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
three years before my birth. In the United States, African Americans are 25 percent more likely to die of cancer than Whites. My father survived prostate cancer, which kills twice as many Black men as it does White men. Breast cancer disproportionately kills Black women.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Imagine how difficult it is for any potential customer to navigate the modern decision landscape.
Martina Lauchengco • Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Bhopal remains a stark disclosure of the discordance between corporate globalization and the possibility of security and sustainability for human communities.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
In a tragic coda to this early story of eugenics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was still enmeshed in the controversy over eugenics as recently as January 2019, this time through the disgraceful racist utterances of Nobel laureate James D. Watson, cofounder of the DNA double helix and one of the laboratory’s longtime fellows, whom they stripped of
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