Is Disgust Related to Morality?
...is not restricted to food taboos. Many other factors, as Megan Oaten and her colleagues explain in their article, “Disease avoidance as a functional basis for stigmatization,” can elicit disgust....
Airborne Viruses, Summer School, and Richard Wright
The medical mystery of airborne viruses (Wired) by Megan Molteni Why did it take so long for authorities to recognize that COVID-19 is airborne? The answer involves a sixty-year-old mistake...
Black Images and the Politics of Beauty
...message. Δ This idea of projecting the right image isn’t so different from what Ebony set out to do. As historian Megan E. Williams explains, Ebony‘s editors focused on “disseminating...
Dead Birds, Data Mining, and Dark Matter
...bigger crisis that also includes many species that we don’t monitor as closely. Data mining your medical records (Wired) by Megan Molteni The Mayo Clinic is working with Google on...
When Foster Care Meant Farm Labor
...Megan Birk writes, Americans depended on farmers to take care of kids in exchange for hard labor. In the years after the Civil War, state and charity welfare workers commonly...
Wealth Taxes, Embodied Words, and Ancient Comedy
...a really clever hustle. The population bust (Wired) by Megan Molteni For decades, demographers have warned that human population growth threatens the world’s resources and could lead to mass deprivation....
Anti-Semitism, Gender Science, and Lavender
...the rise in the U.S. and beyond. Science and gender (Wired) by Adam Rodgers and Megan Molteni The Trump administration has been working to roll back protections for transgender people...
Recognizing African Americans in the Anglican Church
On May 19th, 2018, Episcopal Bishop Michael Curry delivered a rousing address at the wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle. The African American bishop, well aware that he was...
Facebook data, gene-edited food, and a newly discovered organ
...uneven results. The incoming wave of gene-edited food (Wired) by Megan Molteni The magic of CRISPR gene-editing could bring us cacao beans that can withstand warming rainforest temperatures, and potatoes...