Share this on WhatsApp In early August, the Trump administration decided to end the 2020 Census count four weeks early. We should worry, because counting, data and measurement are at the core of our democracy. Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution mandates the enumeration of the population. The Founding Fathers knew that […]
Share this on WhatsApp One of the most impressive, disturbing works of science journalism I’ve encountered is Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, published in 2010. In the book, which I review here, award-winning journalist Robert Whitaker presents evidence that medications for mental illness, […]
Share this on WhatsApp Around 15,000 years ago, the Earth’s climate was in turmoil. Carbon dioxide concentrations were rapidly rising in the atmosphere. Sea levels were rising across the globe. The Northern Hemisphere was heating up. At the same time, the area around Antarctica began to cool down. And as it cooled, a perplexing trend […]
