What I Learned from Teaching Darwin
April 23, 2026 by C. Brandon Ogbunu, PhD During the fall semester of 2025, I taught a graduate seminar entitled “Darwinian Thought and Society.” While teaching should always derive from…
As Guidelines Shift, a Curious Debate Over Seed Oils Persists
January 8, 2026 by Claudia López Lloreda Before beginning his tenure as secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted an old…
Science Needs to Embrace the Idea of Style
December 4, 2025 by C. Brandon Ogbunu The stage play “A Disappearing Number,” conceived by Simon McBurney, focuses on the relationship between the mathematicians Srinivasa Ramanujan and G. H. Hardy.…
CBD’s Unseen Effects on the Teenage Brain
October 30, 2025 by Dr. Nima Sadrian In the popular narrative, cannabidiol, or CBD, is portrayed as a natural, non-intoxicating cure for a host of ailments — and sometimes that…
Book Review: How Childbirth Has Shaped Civilization
October 10, 2025 by Emily Cataneo In 1545 in the Duchy of Savoy, northwest of what is now Italy, a woman named Isabella della Volpe became pregnant. As she approached…
Metascience Is More Important Now Than Ever
July 31, 2025 by C. Brandon Ogbunu On May 24, Vice President J.D. Vance authored a post on X that highlighted a “reproducibility crisis” in the sciences. Vance offered this…
Cannabis Could Be Bad for Your Heart
The following article was originally published on the Undark website on May 5, 2025. May 5, 2025 by Joshua Cohen The country’s marijuana use has been rising, especially in the…
Interview: Did Scientists and the Media Get Covid All Wrong?
March 7, 2025 by Sara Talpos In March and April of 2020, more than 50,000 people in the United States died from the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Doctors were forced to…
Book Review: The Neurological Roots of ‘Sinful’ Behavior
February 7, 2025 by Emily Cataneo James was in his late 30s and weighed more than 500 pounds when he fell in the bathroom and found himself wedged between the…
We Need Greenland. But Not in the Way Trump Thinks.
January 23, 2025 by Paul Bierman Donald Trump has a thing for Greenland. First, he wanted to buy the Arctic island. Then, his son visited for a photo-op. Now, he…