Podcast #35: Ainissa Ramirez
Science evangelist Ainissa Ramirez takes a look at how major technologies have shaped human culture—both intentionally and not.
Science evangelist Ainissa Ramirez takes a look at how major technologies have shaped human culture—both intentionally and not.
With little fanfare, technologies that manipulate brain activity (both external and implanted) pose dangers to health, identity, and society, even as they achieve medical successes.
Our third print issue is about to ship nationally.
In part two of a series on dams, reservoirs and catastrophic failures displace and destroy whole communities and ecosystems.
Across the globe, communities are working to preserve existing areas of natural darkness and reduce the spread of light pollution.
Author and endocrinologist Robert Lustig explains the neurochemical difference between happiness and pleasure and how it’s been exploited to make so many of us fat, addicted, and depressed. Then, he reminds us how to reclaim our health.
Our 2nd issue is off to the printer. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s inside.
Hydroelectric power is often thought of as “green” energy, but dams have devastated river ecology and the creatures it supports—including us.
Neurologist Adam Gazzaley discusses how the brain’s attentional system functions–or doesn’t–when buffeted by digital distraction.
Marcy Darnovsky, Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society, chats with us about the moral minefield of genetic engineering.