science
The Food-Related Racism Surrounding Coronavirus Has Political Consequences
Even if they come in the form of a seemingly harmless joke or meme about Chinese food, denouncing these racist narratives is imperative.
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Needles and Spins: Anti-Vaccine Propaganda Is Dangerously Profitable
Recasting a social contract as an individual choice is at the crux of the movement’s menace.
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Backtalk: It’s the End of the World and We Know It
This week, Dahlia and Amy are talking about climate change. Climate science consistently shows we must curb our greenhouse gas emissions ASAP in order to stop the exponential damage to the environment, which will most likely create global climate devastation by 2050. Though we can live more... Read more »
There’s No Such Thing as Objective Science
Science intentionally created, and continues to recreate, race.
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Bad Medicine: Big Pharma’s Female Trouble
Pharmaceutical companies want women to worry about their own sexual problems and what pill might treat them.
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No Safe Haven: When Natural Disasters Strike Behind Prison Walls
Freedom of movement should be a human right, and yet even in the face of terrifying hurricanes, tsunamis, or wildfires, evacuation of inmates is a decision left to the mercy of local and federal officials.
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America’s Forgotten Female Astronauts
In the 1960s, a group of women spent months training for space travel. But they never got to go.
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Black Women Worked as Some of NASA’s First Computers
Back when “computers” referred to people, Black women were some of NASA’s most crucial mathematicians.
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Apostle of the Cacti: How Minerva Hamilton Hoyt Saved the Desert
Minerva Hamilton Hoyt’s erasure is so predictable because Americans have mythologized the creation of our national parks as an inherently masculine endeavor.
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#HandsOffCaster: Why the Policing of Female Athletes’ Testosterone Levels Needs to Stop
A scientist explains why worrying about athletes’ testosterone levels is baseless and offensive.
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