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Helen Pearson: What Constitutes Real Medical Evidence?
Helen Pearson, PhD, is an award-winning biomedical journalist at Nature, named European Science Journalist of the Year in 2025. She teaches science w…
14 hours ago
Assessment of the Hantavirus with Prof Donald Milton
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3 weeks, 2 days ago
Joanna Stern: An AI Immersion for 365 Days
Joanna Stern was the Wall Street Journal technology journalist for 12 years. She’s an Emmy award winner for her documentary E-Ternal, and recently st…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Roxanne Khamsi: We Are All Genetic Mosaics
“You are a slightly different genetic version of yourself today from yesterday, and will be different yet again tomorrow.”—Roxanne Khamsi
“Each neuron…
1 month, 1 week ago
Sebastian Mallaby: The Infinity Machine
This is one of my favorite books over recent years. Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Cocker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Trisha Pasricha: How to Get to Poophoria, Making Your Bowel Movements a Joy!
Dr. Trisha Pasricha is a gastroenterologist, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and the Ask a Doctor columnist for The Washington Post. H…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
On the Future of Species
Adrian is a molecular biologist and co-founder and CEO of Genyro, a synthetic biology company. He has published 2 previous books on life science (Lif…
2 months, 1 week ago
A Master Class on Sleep
Yo-El Ju is the Barbara Burton and Reuben Morris Professor of Neurology at Washington University, St. Louis. She got her AB from Harvard and MD from …
3 months ago
Robert Wachter & Eric Topol - Discuss a Giant Leap Book
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4 months ago
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System
The vagus nerve, also known as the Great Nerve, connects the brain to all parts of the body, like an internet (Figure below). Every week we’re learni…
4 months ago