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The Brain, Race, and IQ: The Scientific Fight Against Eugenics
Last year, American Eagle tried to sell jeans with a pun: “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans.” The campaign explicitly talked about genes, drawing attention to Sweeney’s blue eyes. For many viewers, the combination of a blond, blue-eyed White woman and the phrase “great genes” echoed the old idea from eugenics that some people inherit superior…
My Dear You by Rachel Khong
A set of delectable short stories, often hilarious but always poignant. All of them center on identity, belonging, and family, and each feel like they could only be written by Khong. This feeling is actually quite hard to elicit. So many creatives chase authenticity by flaunting deeply personal injuries, but very few achieve what Khong…
The Truth About Whole-Body MRI Scans for Cancer
For most of human history, a cancer diagnosis was a death sentence. Doctors could only identify cancer after it had spread extensively. Even with aggressive surgery, cancer recurred and eventually a cancer-related complication – a blood clot, infection, or organ failure – killed the patient. Research into the mechanisms of cancer has given us options…
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