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By Jallicia A. Jolly, Sydney Curtis and Nicole Sessions, Ms. Magazine | 10.17.2025
Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...
By Jay S. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.27.2025
This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
By Judith Levine, Seven Days | 11.06.2013
Unemployed? Sent out 500 résumés? Earned another degree? Done everything humanly possible to get a job?
Well, there’s your problem...
By Steve Connor, The Independent | 11.06.2013
Some of the biggest discoveries in science often hide away in plain sight for many years before their importance is...
By Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR | 11.06.2013
Children who were conceived with in vitro fertilization have the same overall chance of developing childhood cancers as those conceived...
By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 11.05.2013
Fertility doctors in Beijing have begun testing a new method for genome analysis of human eggs before using them for...
By Jennifer Bleyer, Psychology Today | 11.04.2013
He's a 45-year-old divorced father of three, but Andrew lives for the text message he'll get from a woman announcing...
By Rob Stein, NPR | 11.04.2013
After spending months working on a series of stories about the trillions of friendly microbes that live in and on...
By Michael White, Pacific Standard | 11.04.2013
It's 2039, and the Jacksonville Jaguars are fresh off their win in Super Bowl LXXIII, their third straight championship victory...
By Coralie Colmez & Leila Schneps, Nautilus | 11.03.2013
Genetic material is the smoking gun of the modern crime scene. Juries in criminal trials are often encouraged to think...