Share this on WhatsApp Medicine has a long history of erroneous beliefs about biological differences between races. Today this ideology continues in diagnostic algorithms and practice guidelines that are adjusted based on patients’ race—and often lead to further inequities in the health care of nonwhite patients. Now students are working to change these practices, with […]
Share this on WhatsApp Originally published in November 1854 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “Sir David Brewster, who supposes the stars to be inhabited, as being ‘the hope of the Christian,’ asks, ‘is it necessary that an immortal soul be hung upon a skeleton of bone; must it see with two eyes, and rest on a […]
Share this on WhatsApp Life’s up and downs may seem as inevitable as gravity, but somehow 2020 feels worse than usual. Just as a thought experiment, what if this year actually did get so weird that it even ushered in a change in how gravity affects our material universe? In the video Did the Universe […]