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Are Our Genes Really Our Fate? DNA’s Visual Culture and the Construction of Genetic Truth

Kathleen Pierce
Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine
The direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andme has recently been described by journalist Erika Check Hayden as a “unicorn.”1 For Hayden, this Silicon Valley idiom describes the company’s one...

How Artificial Intelligence Can Detect – and Create – Fake News

Anjana Susarla, The Conversation
News, Politics & Economics, Science & Medicine
When Mark Zuckerberg told Congress Facebook would use artificial intelligence to detect fake news posted on the social media site, he wasn’t particularly specific about what that meant. Given my own...

Forced Sterilization Programs in California Once Harmed Thousands – Particularly Latinas

Natalie Lira, The Conversation and Nicole L. Novak, The Conversation
Gender Studies, History, Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
In 1942, 18-year-old Iris Lopez, a Mexican-American woman, started working at the Calship Yards in Los Angeles. Working on the home front building Victory Ships not only added to the war effort, but allowed...

Parents feel weird about sex ed for LGBTQ teens

Marla Paul, Futurity
Education, Gender Studies, Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
The parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer teens feel uncomfortable and unequipped when trying to educate them about sex and dating, research finds. “Parents play an important role...

Rights of the dead and the living clash when scientists extract DNA from human remains

Chip Colwell
Anthropology, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
The remains of a 6-inch long mummy from Chile are not those of a space alien, according to recently reported research. The tiny body with its strange features – a pointed head, elongated bones – had been...

Canned Food History: A Conversation with Anna Zeide

Emily Contois, Nursing Clio
Science & Medicine
Recently, I had my students in Food in American Society and Culture try their hand at drafting dietary guidelines. While every group recommended consuming fruits and vegetables, one group specifically called...

Kids and Adults Look at Words and Faces Differently

Nathan Collins
Science & Medicine
Young children literally see words and faces differently than adults do, according to new research. Where adults can most easily comprehend a word when they look at it straight on, children need to look a...
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