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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 Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian | 06.08.2013
In the almost year-long lead-up to having my whole genome sequenced, I have no fears about it. Or at least...
By Jamie Rappaport Clark, Huffington Post | 06.06.2013
There has been a lot of talk in the scientific community and the media recently about the idea of "de-extinction;"...
By L. Jim Thomas, The Huffington Post | 06.06.2013
There is less than a day to go before the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter.com hands hundreds of thousands of dollars...
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times | 06.05.2013
One of the many ways in which humans' evolved characteristics clash with a fast-changing post-industrial society can be seen in...
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 06.05.2013
More than 70 medical, research and advocacy organizations active in 41 countries and including the National Institutes of Health announced...
By Roque Planas, The Huffington Post | 06.05.2013
When a woman identified by the pseudonym of Minelva entered Pacific Colony, a California “home for the feebleminded,” she had...
By Liza Gross, KQED | 06.05.2013
Last month, hundreds of experts who study human-environment interactions called on policymakers to take immediate action to curb humanity’s ecologically...
By Lundy Braun, Brown University | 06.03.2013
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Lundy Braun studies racial health disparities and their history as a professor of both pathology...