What It Means To Live With Dementia
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Stephen Serene finds beauty and insight in Lynn Casteel Harper's portrait of dementia, but worries that it whitewashes the realities of nursing home life
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This Scientific Life
Our contributors hail from all over the sciences — and all over the world. We’ll share what brought us to science, why we stay, and what makes us (occasionally) want to run away. There will be eureka moments, scientific screw-ups, advice to youngsters, peers, and elders, as well as whimsical stories about space exploration, fruit fly cognition, and how a neuron can live its best life.
The Ghost of Pandemics Past
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Jared Diamond's classic explains how epidemics of the past transformed societies. Agata Bochynska wonders: how will the current pandemic change ours?
Read MoreA Kassandra For Our Time
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Ali Cohen finds Madeline Drexler's twenty-year-old profile of new viruses and public health challenges starkly relevant today
Read MoreWhen Fiction Helps Us See
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Life imitates art when Megan Elder immerses herself in Saramago's famous pandemic novel
Read MoreThe End of the World As We Know It
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Benjamin Pope shares David Wallace-Wells' alarm over climate change -- but balks at his narrow view on solutions to the problem
Read MoreA World Without Medicine
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In Mary Shelley's lesser-known work, Nicole Perez finds a story scarier -- but more relevant -- than Frankenstein
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